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Earlier this summer we had to endure the misbegotten Summer Camp which was yet another attempt by Diane Keaton, joined by Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard, to mix comedy and later-in-life drama in an older female bonding flick. Keaton had great success in the…

When Disney bought 20th Century Fox in 2018, Fox’s big R-rated, foul-mouthed, quippy hit Deadpool was riding high on its first sequel, which came quickly after the 2016 Ryan Reynolds-led movie broke out. Even though the character came from the Marvel label, it was hard to imagine him fitting comfortably…

If the only vacation you get to take this year is watching Netflix, you could do worse than the sweet and forgettable Harry Connick Jr romantic comedy Find Me Falling. This is a standard but grown-up rom-com confection that takes place entirely on the…

On the surface, Touch seems to be a sudden change of pace for Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, a quiet and polished film-of-the-book (in this case, the novel of the same name by fellow countryman Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson) that could easily pass for a BBC…

There’s funny, there’s very funny, and then there’s Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's riotous new comedy that brings more laughs to Broadway than all the Gutenberg!s, Edelmans and Birbiglias combined. You can throw in Shucked for good measure. Escola, low-key famous these last few years through YouTube…

The original Twister, released in 1996, emerged during a golden age in Hollywood that erased the previously held threshold that kept A-list actors away from B-movie material. It didn't get much better than casting John Malkovich as Cyrus the Virus in Jerry Bruckheimer's 1997 blockbuster bruiser Con Air…

Writer-director Osgood Perkins is aiming straight at his celebrated father’s status at the top of the most memorable and creepy character in the history of movies. The filmmaker’s dad was the great Anthony Perkins who of course played the unforgettable and…

Chemistry has always been Hollywood's secret sauce, and, for rom-coms at least, the high-water mark remains the pairing of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Most cineastes can name their first collaboration (Pillow Talk in 1959), but the others — Lover Come Back…

"Every day I have that test," insisted Joe Biden tonight on ABC of the calls for the president taking a cognitive test . "Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world, and that's not hyperbole." The president was speaking to George Stephanopoulos in a damage control interview that aired in…

There may have not been as much television in 2024 so far as in previous years, but there was a Hell of a lot of great TV in the first half of this year. The harsh beauty of FX's Shōgun, the depths of Baby Reindeer and Big Mood, the wit of Diarra from Detroit, and the surprising scope of X-Men '97…

It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy first exploded onto the screen as one of his signature characters, Axel Foley, in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. But even if that 22 year old is now 63, he is still on the beat and doesn’t miss a beat…

It wouldn't be a film festival without at least one timely, harrowing emigrant story, but just when you might think the stylistic possibilities have been exhausted — from documentary, to vérité-style fiction and occasionally a dash of deadpan comedy (like Ben Sharrock's wonderful Limbo, 2020) — along…