Movie

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the November 2021 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme this month is “Generations.” In addition to the excerpted essay below on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” by Steph...

The wrath of God has been rendered, cinematically speaking, in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s a perfect storm; sometimes it’s Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules striking great vengeance down upon thee with furious anger in “Pulp...

Not knowing in advance that “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” begins with a few minutes of hardcore pornography, I made the mistake of starting it on a big television in a home containing teenagers. This is not...

Behold the craven exercise in hollow nostalgia that is “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” In taking over the “Ghostbusters” mantle from his father, Ivan, director Jason Reitman trots out all the characters, props, gags and famous lines from the...

By now, the “Call of Duty” franchise is quite literally too big to fail. Yes, people complain about the repetitive nature of a series that seems to barely alter what it delivers year after year, and...

In the summer of 1995, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing a song from Alanis Morissette’s breakthrough album, Jagged Little Pill. It was a hit factory, a source of non-stop radio fodder. From the cathartic and...

Halle Berry’s directorial debut, “Bruised,” an unfocused inspirational sports story, opens with a hazy point of view shot, capturing a fighter in panic. It’s an MMA title bout set in the unforgivable octagon. The ringside announcers’...

Benedict Cumberbatch is perhaps not the first actor that springs to mind when thinking of casting a Western, but under the direction of Jane Campion in her stellar drama “The Power of the Dog,” he’s just...

The title is “King Richard,” but the film Venus and Serena Williams produced about their childhood makes it clear that their mother, Oracene (“Brandy”) Price, was equally important in providing the foundation, support, and inspiration that...

When you’ve been doing a job long enough, full-circle moments are an inevitability, yet the one I experienced on this assignment was singularly special. My very first interview I conducted as a published journalist was with...