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April 21, 2025Talking to LeBron James recently in Interview magazine, Ryan Coogler used a culinary metaphor: “I want people walking out of the theater and thinking, ‘Man, I had a full...
March 7, 2025There are two Robert Pattinsons in Mickey 17—one sweet and dopey, one sullen and sharp, each the other’s distorted mirror image. They’re both clones hatched as part...
March 6, 2025When Quentin Tarantino strode onstage last night at the Academy Awards ceremony to hand out best director, it was an indicator of two things. The first was that last year’s...
February 25, 2025In 1968, The New York Times dismissed Night of the Living Dead as a revolting little item cobbled together by “some people in Pittsburgh.” The review was myopic; the film...
February 20, 2025“I should have just taken the serum,” says Sam Wilson in Captain America: Brave New World. His refusal to turn himself into a super-soldier like his predecessor, Steve...
January 13, 2025The first thing Gerard Butler’s Big Nick O’Brien does after touching down in France early on in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is sample the local cuisine. “I’ll...
