The same MAGA audience that tuned out of late-night TV a decade ago did not do so for South Park. The creators are making the ...

As this fight escalated, the conflict became about more than contraception or abortion. It revealed Americans’ views about ...

It’s fitting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th film, One Battle After Another, serves, if not as an endpoint, then as an evolution of his impressive decades of work. That his vision delivers is hardly ...

Many actors have said they love their career, “but what I really want to do is direct.” It’s a movie-colony cliché on par with stars moving to Montana “because Hollywood is so phony.” Ninety-four-year ...

Over the course of a long career, British author Ian McEwan has forayed into a variety of literary genres. These range from historical fiction (Atonement) and espionage (The Innocent and Sweet Tooth) ...

“Comedy is difficult.” So said the great actor Matt Dillon, who once nailed a brilliant and side-splitting performance as the shady private investigator Pat Healy in the classic film, Something About ...

An uncomfortable truth: Somewhere between “text me when you get home” and “I’m honoring my bandwidth this weekend,” friendship became an assigned action item. We used to measure closeness by who ...

“We’re The Cuticles,” shouts Travis Dent, the band’s lead singer-guitarist, from the stage of a second-rate nightclub in a third-rate town. Moments later, he forgets the lyrics and chords to their ...

A new twist on an old premise for a movie can go a long way, and The Vile – directed by Majid Al-Ansari -- is evidence of that. The cultural flavorings in this thriller help elevate the plot as it ...

But the kind of ROI that matters in friendship isn’t the one you’d find in a quarterly report. It can’t only be about efficiency, balance sheets, or perfect reciprocity. It’s about the nourishment ...

The film progresses to the city of Sacramento, where we follow our protagonists becoming more daring and violent, especially Beverly Hills, who learns she is pregnant, and in her mind, sidelining her ...

Bdoor Mohammed is fantastic in her role. She’s able to shift emotional gears in her performance quickly and in a believable way. The betrayal and pain she feels in Khalid finding a new wife are ...