The Handmaiden
From Park Chan-wook, the South Korean mastermind behind Oldboy and Stoker, comes the best film about a handmaiden since The Phantom Menace. Ostensibly the story of a pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri) […]
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Lady Macbeth
The young Katherine (Florence Pugh) is sold into marriage to an older man (Paul Hilton) in this new British drama. That Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novel, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, has […]
The Last Waltz
“This film should be played loud!” So begins Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, and the careers of Michael Bay and Zack Snyder. Not to be confused with Take This Waltz or Christoph […]
Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who can’t get a job because he takes his roles so seriously. With his reputation preceding him he resolves to wipe the slate clean […]
Mindhorn
A washed-up actor from ’80s detective show Mindhorn (Julian Barratt) must work with the police when a suspected serial killer (Russell Tovey) demands to speak to Detective Mindhorn. It’s Galaxy Quest meets Alan […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It’s finally here. After 28 years, we have a sequel to Tango & Cash. When we last saw our heroes (Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell), they were high-fiving in a ditch. Now, […]
Lady in the Water
My new film is the sequel to #Unbreakable AND #Split. It was always my dream to have both films collide in this third film. — M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April […]
Across 110th Street
Three men steal $300,000 from the mob in this blaxploitation classic from 1972. My main complaint with Black Mama, White Mama (co-written by Jonathan Demme, who sadly passed away yesterday) was that […]
West Side Story
Two basketball teams, both alike in dignity / in fair Manhattan, where we lay our scene. So doesn’t begin Sondheim and Bernstein’s West Side Story. Set in New York City, 1957, this […]
Chaplin
Richard Attenborough returns to the biopic, this time charting the life of silent comedy star Charlie Chaplin. Without a doubt the best thing about this film is Robert Downey Jr’s […]
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