The movie event of 2025 so far for a certain type of dude just landed on Netflix: Not long after the original film ruled the streaming services charts, Den of Thieves: Pantera has come home. […]
Jesse Hassenger
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When I was in college, I watched The Simpsons three times a day. My school was located at a nexus of affiliates, meaning that our free broadcast stations included two different local Fox stations, one […]
It’s been five long years and possibly several lifetimes since Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2019 – a great movie year and the last one before the pandemic shifted […]
Nearly ten years after its theatrical debut, Sicario is having a moment in the Netflix Top 10. Normally most movies that could be described, however tangentially, as political thrillers risk a short shelf life. But […]
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, […]
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 […]