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 […]
Jesse Hassenger
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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 […]
For the past ten years, director Jaume Collet-Serra has been working with movie stars, whether in his cycle of fraught, Hitchcockian thrillers with Liam Neeson; Blake Lively’s best-ever performance in the limited-location shark thriller The […]
As we enter the last few weeks of the year, multiplexes will continue to be dominated by the Thanksgiving-week blockbusters Moana 2, Wicked, and Gladiator II – but at a few locations, a November hit […]
It’s been 15 years since Megan Fox had the presumably bizarre experience of achieving a career apex and nadir all at once. In 2009, she co-starred in the second-highest-grossing U.S. release of the year, and […]
Of the many starlets, superstars, superstarlets, singers, and miscellaneous rich girls that the media treated with relentless cruelty and dagger-eyed attention in the mid-2000s, few cases seemed to specifically torpedo a promising career more than […]
Earlier this year, Chris Pine suffered a major blow in the neverending (and probably mostly imaginary) battle of the Hollywood Chrises. Weighed down by neither weird overtones nor mid-career malaise, and as the only major […]
Man, remember Will Smith? I mean, sure, it’s hard to forget him; he’s been one of the biggest movie stars in the world for well over 20 years at this point, and he seems to […]