Robert Pattinson is dead. Robert Pattinson is reborn. He hath risen! Rinse, repeat. Like a Looney Tunes cartoon penned by Philip K. Dick, Mickey 17 — filmmaker Bong Joon Ho‘s long-awaited follow-up to his 2019 masterpiece Parasite — takes a technological breakthrough and runs its human lab rat of a …
Read More »'Daredevil: Born Again' Could Use Another Reboot
In the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) teases best friends Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Foggy Nelson(Elden Henson) about their tendency to indulge in nostalgia for the pre-gentrification days of Hell’s Kitchen. “Not nostalgia,” Foggy insists. “Reverence for the past, yet hope …
Read More »'Last Breath' Is a Real-Life Disaster Movie Desperate for More Oxygen
The job description “professional diver” doesn’t do justice to what Chris Lemons did for a living. The 32-year-old native of Edinburgh was part of an elite group of aquanauts known as saturation divers, who were responsible for fixing and maintaining the 20,000 miles of pipeline that rest on the ocean …
Read More »'Suits LA' Is 3,000 Miles and Light-Years Away From the Original
Remember the Summer of Suits? The hottest show in the warmest months of 2023 was, improbably, Suits, a slick, mostly lighthearted basic-cable legal drama from the 2010s. To the surprise of everyone —including its own stars, as well as its creator, Aaron Korsh —Suits went viral that summer, first in …
Read More »'The Monkey' Is One Long, Sick Joke Without a Punch Line
“Don’t call it a toy!” This sentiment is alternately groaned and shrieked more than a few times in relation to the title character of director Osgood Perkins’ horror movie, and with good reason: Unless you count the short-lived Fisher-Price’s My First Anthrax kit, most toys do not cause mass death …
Read More »'Universal Language' Is the Perfect Blend of Poetry, Parody and Sexy Turkeys
It’s a sight familiar to anyone who’s been nurtured on a steady diet of international films: Children are sitting in a classroom, getting lectured by an irate teacher. The conversations are in Farsi, which suggests we’re somewhere on the outskirts of Tehran. The fact that one of the students is …
Read More »'Yellowjackets' Is Stuck in the Woods With No Escape Plan
In an episode from the third season of Yellowjackets, two characters cook a meal while singing and dancing along to Cass Elliot’s 1969 hit “Make Your Own Kind of Music.” For TV fanatics, it’s a song that will forever be associated with the second-season premiere of Lost, where Elliot’s soaring …
Read More »'The Gorge' Is a Meet-Cute With Monsters
Somewhere, deep in the forests of an undisclosed location in Europe, there is a valley. The existence of this no-man’s land is a secret known to those with only the highest security clearances. Shrouded in fog and buffeted by steep walls of rock, it is considered one of the most …
Read More »'Captain America: Brave New World' Is Just MCU: Business as Usual
Heavy is the hand that carries the red, white, and blue shield. As you all remember from the end of Avengers: Endgame — and from diligently perusing the perpetually in-progress timeline one needs to maintain in order to keep up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Sam Wilson, formerly known …
Read More »'Paddington in Peru' Is One Warm, Whimsical Bear Hug
He’s small, he’s brown, he’s furry and rocks a blue duffel coat and a red hat (no, not that kind of red hat) like nobody’s business. His name is Paddington, and for close to seven decades, this tiny London-based bear has delighted discerning young readers with his extreme politeness, his …
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