Sweet and shaggy and kind of sad, Clay Tatum’s “The Civil Dead” is a low-key buddy comedy in which only one of the buddies is alive. Even so, this isn’t a scary...
Read moreThe found-footage genre can be catnip to young filmmakers, embracing as it does a low-budget aesthetic and the kind of incoherent crashing-about that even the most unseasoned actors can manage. There’s nothing...
Read moreWinnie the Pooh, Piglet, Christopher Robin and other denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood will be back on the big screen this month. Just don’t expect delightful animation, whimsical songs or heartwarming...
Read moreWhich aspects of the campaign might have earned scrutiny? Online sleuths noticed that a slew of copy-paste phrases — including the description of “To Leslie” as “a small film with a giant...
Read moreWhen is a famous athlete not a famous athlete? When they’re appearing as themselves in a Hollywood movie — then they’re a movie star. Or are they? Despite more than a century...
Read moreA simple but terrifying question is at the heart of “Knock at the Cabin,” the latest in unsettling cinema from the director M. Night Shyamalan: If a group of strangers arrived at...
Read moreMelinda Dillon, who shot to Broadway stardom at 23, withdrew from acting after a mental breakdown, and then, in her late 30s, staged a comeback, receiving best supporting actress Oscar nominations for...
Read moreIn response, Shyamalan stripped away the supernatural from “The Village.” In an interview from Michael Bamberger’s book “The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a...
Read moreBefore the sniffles, before the sharp inhales and heavy swallows — before, in other words, any of the typical sounds of crying — you hear the muted pitter-patter of a child’s tears...
Read more‘Sick’Stream it on Peacock.It’s 2020, and Covid-19 has most of America under quarantine. Miri (Beth Million) takes coronavirus precautions seriously, but her college bestie Parker (Gideon Adlon) has virus fatigue, something her...
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