Movie

Glenn Close plays “The Wife,” and notably the title is not her name but her role—helpmate to an acclaimed literary figure. Their names, Joan and Joe Castleman, suggest there may be some unexplored blending between their...

Crystal Moselle’s “Skate Kitchen,” about a group of young female skateboarders in New York City, is a solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film—genres that tend to revolve around young men. It’s also a...

The myth of Slender Man is a fascinating modern urban legend. It was created by Eric Knudsen (also known as “Victor Surge”) in 2009 as a “creepypasta” internet meme—sort of the tech age equivalent of ghost...

Charlottesville will be on the minds of many this moth, not only because this week is the anniversary of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally, but also because Charlottesville serves as coda to Spike Lee’s latest...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the addition of a “popular film” category that will honor a movie audiences love but doesn’t (presumably) look like an “Oscar film.” Academy President John Bailey...

In news that probably will not shock anyone, “The Meg,” the long-gestating screen adaptation of Steve Alten’s best-selling novel, comes nowhere close to equalling the genius of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws”—considering that that film is one of...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will hold its Annual Grants Banquet tomorrow, August 9th, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The event marks the biggest charitable evening of the year for the HFPA as the...

Do you sometimes share your human food with your dog out of the same container? Are you likely to trust dog lovers blindly on sheer principle? Have you ever sat across from a dog therapist, and...

Consider Spike Lee’s new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” one of the must-see cinematic events of 2018. It is arguably the director’s best narrative feature since 2002’s “25th Hour,” and undeniably one of the most incendiary indictments of the...

“BlacKkKlansman” presents racism as a dichotomy between the absurd and the dangerous; the film’s intentional laughs often get caught in one’s throat. Director Spike Lee and his co-screenwriters Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott adapt...