Widows: Four Funerals and a Robbery
After making a movie like 12 Years a Slave, you can hardly fault Steve McQueen for wanting to lighten up for his next film....
Spider’s Web: Claire Direction
This is shaping up to be a Claire Foy type of year, isn't it? The London native became famous playing a young version of...
Forgive Me?: Bad Words
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Melissa McCarthy can act in a serious drama, too. Many people only know her from her broad comedies...
Suspiria: Dance of Death
First, a confession: I’m not a big fan of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. The production design and the music in the 1977 horror film are...
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Show Must Go On
Great movies often have great performances, but I think it must be harder for an actor to give a great performance in the midst...
Trouble with English
If you know Rowan Atkinson, it’s likely from his collaborations with Richard Curtis, where he played a tongue-tied priest in Four Weddings and a...
The Hate U Give: All Eyes on Me
Sometimes in life, you just need a black girl standing on the hood of a car telling you to burn down this whole rotten...
Halloween: Back on the Mike
“Are you afraid of the Boogeyman? You should be.” — Laurie Strode, sole Michael Myers survivor
If you’re reading this, you know who the Boogeyman...
First Man: Moonshot
I always respect directors who try to prove that they can do more than one thing, so as much as I’d like another musical...
El Royale With Cheese
It took us 24 years, but we finally got a Pulp Fiction clone that’s worthy of standing beside the original. That would be Bad...