… Everything about the series, from plotting to character development to tone, feels contrived, with every speck of subtext hauled up and nailed down to the show’s slick surface
Uthaug’s film, like the recent reboot of the video-game series, gives us a grittier Lara Croft, one stripped of the advantages of her wealth and all bruised up from the rigors of her adventure
The Strangers: Prey at Night … has a slow and rather grim first half, but then, in the home stretch, takes a welcome turn into the seriously silly
… it’s worth reconsidering The X-Files’ feminism today, especially when so much of the series’ fan goodwill is based on the quietly political leaps it made in the last century
… This first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at times moving in its sincerity, thanks to stellar casting and the director’s clear-eyed perspective on aging and dementia …
Car collector and builder Dave Scott McDonough always gets noticed when he goes for a drive. The car he uses to drive to work and take his kids to school is a model of the Ecto-1 used in the movie Ghostbusters. His backup ride is a Jeep fashioned to look like…
Here is a movie made for and about the people who believe they are the essence of American normalcy, a movie that dutifully flatters and celebrates them even as it works to expand who that normalcy actually includes
Alamo Drafthouse is expanding once again. Alamo Drafthouse Lake Highlands, in Dallas’ Creekside Shopping Center, will host its soft open March 20 and its official grand opening March 28. This is the movie chain’s third location in DFW. The Lake Highlands theater will include everything that makes the chain so famous and…
Deep Ellum was formed roughly 145 years ago, which is also the same wait time to get a table at Pecan Lodge. While the area has gone through many changes, Deep Ellum has consistently maintained itself as a destination for artists, musicians and anyone looking to have a good time…
It has impenetrable technobabble jutting up against awkward football metaphors and a reverie on peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches sandwiched between a monologue on climate change and the triumphant revelation of a character’s hidden home arsenal.
Kersey is the everyman, and Roth’s movie, whether he likes it or not, is the good-guy-with-a-gun propaganda the NRA is just lapping up straight out of the toilet
Thoroughbreds’ best trick is to convince us, through the aching stillness of its stars’ eyes, that it might not actually be a twisty, twisted thriller inspired by the likes of Strangers on a Train
Just when you thought you were safe in the confines of your own home, the finale of The Bachelor took a dramatic turn. Before you knew it, you were frantically tweeting about how upset you were. The man you grew to love over the past six weeks wasn’t who you…
The film sends the simultaneous messages that it’s futile to coddle children but also that it’s OK to feel the icky stuff that you feel, because even your weaknesses can be transformed to strengths
Acting in a film is hard work, but when it’s your first film, it can also be quite fun and eye-opening. Actor Jake Ryan Scott, who has a big role in the new horror film Children of the Corn: Runaway, recalled one of the long nights when he and his…
Parker Bates is only 10, yet he’s made it on one of the most popular shows on TV right now. Bates, a Dallas native, plays Kevin, son of Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) on the NBC hit television series This Is Us. The actor began his career in modeling…
Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister
No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly
The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions
The director seems to be in pursuit of a broader tapestry: The Russia he presents is a wasteland of survival, where a woman’s only hope is pairing off with a moneyed man
The film gives only the most paltry consideration to geopolitics, to relations between the U.S. and Russia or America’s own corrupt operations
