Chicago is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for jazz music this week. Concerts, exhibits, and various symposia on the art of jazz across the city led up to International Jazz […]
Brazilian cinema is having its moment just as Iranian, Taiwanese and Korean cinemas did at some point. But what happens after the flavor-of-the-month stops being the flavor-of-the-month? Answer: a select […]
A churlish novelist named Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) arrives at a quaint, quite old hotel in rural Ireland, a place where his parents had their honeymoon. While he could be […]
As I was experiencing the 20-years-later sequel to The Devil Wears Prada the other day, I found myself repeatedly astonished at how much I was enjoying not just the jokes […]
The day before the most recent episode of Survivor 50 aired, AV Club posted an article lamenting the season’s “Jeff Probst problem”: namely, the host’s unrelenting need to insert himself […]
The opening scene of the new thriller Apex is one of the more memorable I’ve seen in a while. In the span of just a few minutes, we learn a […]
Depending on where you stand, writer/director/editor David Lowery’s Mother Mary can be seen as a trippy relationship drama, a full-on psychological horror attack, a story about the lengths an artist […]
When it comes to music biopics, I don’t require or expect historical accuracy—leave it to the documentaries to get everything right. What I do expect is to discover something about […]
Although the trailblazing New York punk legends Lunachicks weren’t technically the first all-female punk band, their iconic looks and undeniably catchy hard-rock tunes always make me feel like they should […]
Two weeks ago, Survivor 50 introduced the overblown “blood moon” twist, the show’s first-ever triple elimination. While having three vote-outs was new, the format was very familiar. But this week’s […]
A bloody throwback to the simplistic and grisly pleasures of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rod Blackhurst’s slasher Dolly is all gas, no breaks. It focuses on a young woman, Macy […]
This article was written by Lauren Weiner. Normal is a little, boring town in the middle of wintry Minnesota, and it seems as though nothing ever happens there. That much […]