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 ...

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 ...

Shakey Grounds is what I would call a “little movie.” The budget was small, the actors (except for a cameo by the always good Eric Roberts) largely unknown, and the story (by screenwriter Trace ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Eleanor the Great” is only 98 minutes, but feels longer. Scenes could have been tightened. Anguished dialogue might have been toned down. A few over-the-top emotional scenes might have been subdued ...

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 ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

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) ...