The 97th Academy Awards were handed out Sunday evening in a ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien at the Dolby Theater. As expected, Sean Baker and “Anora” completed their fairy-tale ending winning a whopping five Oscars including Picture, Director, Actress for…
Read moreEvery now and then, a movie slips through the cracks and it’s safe to say that The Salton Sea is one of them. Part crime thriller, part fever dream, it lunges viewers into a world of meth-fueled chaos, crooked cops,…
Read moreFor such a long career, Martin Scorsese has an incredibly high batting average when it comes to the quality of his films. Across 26 narrative features and 16 documentaries, the maestro's work is rarely met with anything less than effusive…
Read moreFor his completion of the trifecta of totemic mafia stories, Tony Lip will forever live in the annals of Italian-American history. Only one actor has appeared in The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos, and it's someone you only see in…
Read moreAfter first making a name for himself in Hollywood with roles in films like The Spectacular Now, the Divergent trilogy, That Awkward Moment, and Fantastic Four, Miles Teller experienced a resurgence in popularity following his scene-stealing performance in the 2022…
Read moreThough he may be recognized as everyone's favorite vigilante serial killer in Showtime’s Dexter, Michael C. Hall has carved out a diverse body of work in film since the original eight-season run ended in 2013. From a man traumatized by…
Read moreThere are a few overarching mysteries in the mind-bending sci-fi psychological thriller series Severance. The biggest one, of course, is what Lumon Industries’ ultimate goal is with the severance program and employees like Mark (Adam Scott). The second is what…
Read moreLord Byron wrote, “The heart will break, but broken live on.” These words become the essence of writer-director Noah Pritzker’s, Ex-Husbands, a moving new film that examines the intergenerational coming to terms with heartbreak and divorce for a father and…
Read moreIn 1966, as the old Hollywood was giving way to the new, underground filmmaker Monte Hellman directed two small-scale Westerns back-to-back: The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind. Both films were produced by Roger Corman, the King of "B Movies,"…
Read moreNetflix has become quite well-known for dabbling in films, TV series, and documentaries that center primarily on sports. The streamer's latest series, Running Point, a comedy centering on love, family, and basketball, is yet another addition to its already impressive…
Read moreOrganized crime is the most susceptible world for Hollywood glamorization, not just because of its illicit, hush-hush status, but because our culture has imbued the mafia with a mythological treatment. While films are heavily responsible for the apocryphal interpretation of…
Read moreWith the return of The White Lotus, viewers are reintroduced to the infamous chain of resorts, witnessing new and old faces congregate at the White Lotus in Ko Samui, Thailand. From the omnipresence of the monkeys at the resort, the…
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