Even before she lost her Scream gig for speaking out against Israel’s actions in Palestine, Melissa Barrera had a career that wasn’t exactly typical Hollywood starlet stuff. Born in Mexico and trained on Mexican soaps, […]
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Two of the best movies currently playing in theaters, the RaMell Ross-directed Oscar nominee Nickel Boys and Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, perform extended experiments with a movie camera’s point of view. In Nickel Boys, Ross uses […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A young woman returns to her hometown for the holidays, expecting to spend some quiet time with her family, and winds up meeting a handsome man, eventually […]
After the usual months of build-up, including many smaller awards bodies, critics’ best-of lists, and, oh yeah, movies actually getting released, Oscar season is truly here. Though the voting body of the Golden Globes does […]
No, your eyes do not deceive you: There is a movie called Nightbitch tearing up the charts on Disney+, and it’s not the streaming service’s remake of Lady and the Tramp (though that does exist). […]
As Kraven the Hunter sneaks into movie theaters and indirectly puts an end to the saga of Sony’s attempted Spider-Man Without Spider-Man Universe, it’s a fine time to reflect on just how few successful superhero […]