One Battle: I’d Love to Change the World
“You know what freedom is?” a karate instructor named Sergio (Benicio del Toro) asks the man (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is sitting on the passenger...
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If the name Yeon Sang-ho is vaguely familiar to you, it’s likely because you’ve seen his 2016 Korean zombie movie Train to Busan. That...
In Whose Name?: Yeezy as 1-2-3
We’re six years and counting into the Kanye West mental meltdown, and still the most perceptive thing anybody has said about it was on...
Him: Trick Plays
It was in the fall of 2016 that I saw Kicks at the AMC Parks at Arlington and was awed by its story of...
Big Bold Beautiful Journey: Love Is an Open Door
Time to introduce you to someone. The YouTube creator who calls himself Kogonada kept his real name (Park Joong-eun) a secret for quite a...
Long Walk: Ease on Down the Road
Stephen King was still a teenager when he started writing The Long Walk, which he eventually published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. He meant...
Splitsville: My Best Friend’s Wife
Men talk about this a lot: The ultimate betrayal a man can make of his male friend is to have sex with that man’s...
Caught Stealing: Giants Fan
In some ways, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing reminds you of his first feature film π. It’s set in 1998, when π was released, it...
Demon Hunters: K-Pow
I went to my doctor’s office last week for my annual physical, and while they were testing my hearing, I had to tell them...
Ne Zha II: Ha Zha Zha
If you’ve heard anything about Ne Zha II, it’s likely about the insane box-office numbers that it did this past spring. The animated sequel...
