Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is almost mesmerizing
Chadwick Boseman’s final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, has arrived. How does Netflix’s adaptation of the August Wilson classic play fare?
Chadwick Boseman’s final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, has arrived. How does Netflix’s adaptation of the August Wilson classic play fare?
John Wick Hex, a video game prequel to Keanu Reeves’ hit action franchise, finally came to the Nintendo Switch. How does it play?
New on PC, PS4, XBox One, and Nintendo Switch, MORBID: THE SEVEN ACOLYTES is a strong indie action RPG. It’s flawed, but if you’re a fan of grotesque monsters and excellent action, it’s worth checking out.
There may be no better film to explain the current implosion of the Trump movement than Steven Soderbergh’s deeply strange 2009 masterpiece, THE INFORMANT!
There were a lot of excellent big-budget, major studio video games in 2020. HADES is better than all of them.
Hobbies are funny things. As adults, we often come by them casually and with little sense of obligation. Maybe a friend convinces us to run a 5K with them and we find unexpected joy in running, or a quick search on Ancestry.com evolves into a years-long project to trace our …
The great recession of 2008 was a defining moment of my own generation, and particularly for those who found themselves stepping out of college into a workforce where there simply wasn’t enough gainful employment to be had. 12 years later, the long-term effects of this have really only begun to …
David Fincher’s long-awaited new feature, MANK, stylishly centers on the largely untold story of the co-screenwriter of CITIZEN KANE
Black Bear is a memorable tug-of-war that isn’t always pleasant, but thrives thanks to a trio of stellar performances led by a remarkable Aubrey Plaza.
An admirable effort that attempts to skirt its narrative shortcomings through waning technical ambition
Season 4 of The Crown is here. This is arguably the most anticipated season of the Netflix hit yet, by virtue of the ground it has to cover: anyone old enough to remember that fateful Paris car crash knows this season begins the public unraveling of one of the most private famous families in the world.
The latest Blumhouse effort is a throwback to the horror comedies of yesteryear. Sadly, it can’t quite live up to its great premise.
Another day, another “It’s fine, but the original was better” remake.
Borat returns, and has his sights set on the Trump administration, in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. How’s it stack up?
We look at Evil Eye and Nocturne, the most recent films from Amazon’s partnership with horror studio Blumhouse.