The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. That they’re not generally the hero of many stories is, at the very least, understandable. More often they’re por...
Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal?
Nope, and there’s no signal at Paddy and Ciara’s house, either, deep in the Engl...
About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore?
Quite a bit, it turns out, particularly regarding the bloodies...
“Is there anything worse than an actor with a cause?” asks an annoyed Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan’s first wife, early in “Reagan,” the new biopic starring Dennis Quaid.
We...
In “Slingshot,” a space travel thriller directed by Mikael Håfström, the title refers to a risky flight maneuver involving orbital mechanics. Astronauts journeying a bill...
In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but...
“In space, no one can hear you scream,” went the tagline for the original “Alien” in 1979, a terrifying thought on multiple levels.
There may indeed be a scientific ratio...
Finally, a movie for everyone who read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and wished it had been a comedy.
Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is a farcical twist on an old story that, ...
More than a half century has passed since Ohio National Guard members opened fire on college students during a war protest at Kent State University, killing four students...
Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don’t really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She’s up there trying to come to terms ...
