The premise is simple enough: A man finds his family trip interrupted when his car breaks down. A mechanic thinks this stranger in town was the same person who tortured him for years in prison. He abducts the traveler, takes him to the desert, and digs a grave. Then a …
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It was just supposed to be a nice weekend away, nothing more than a fun jaunt to a friend’s beach house, complete with Seventies soft rock sings-alongs in the car (Kenny Loggins’ “Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’” is a great road-trip jam) and maybe even a quick hand job en …
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There are dozens upon dozens of memorable eccentrics, delusional antiheroes, blustery authority figures, sad sacks, screw-ups and all-too-lovable schmucks that populate the 12 feature films and handful of shorts directed by Wes Anderson. It is safe to say that there’s nobody else like Anatole “Zsa Zsa” Korda in his back …
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If Mia Threapleton had to pick an avatar for her creative awakening as a kid, she might choose a fox. She could have gone with a lion, the animal she’d pretended to be during summer camps and after-school “acting clubs” with her friends, and which gave her an early peek …
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A new Spike Lee movie is still a calendar-clearing event; in the near 30 years since She’s Gotta Have It helped kickstart the Amerindie boom and introduced the world to a brash, trash-talking auteur from Brooklyn, he’s given us era-defining statements and eccentric sidebars, epic biopics and intimate performance movies, …
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In 2018, Shia LaBeouf was feeling heartbroken, adrift, in a state of what he called “spiritual sickness.” So the actor did what a lot of us were doing back then when we found ourselves in serious need of help: He went on Twitter. In the video that LaBeouf posted on …
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“I bled, I peed, I cried, and vomited.” This sentence comes at the end of the second paragraph of The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch’s extraordinary, extraordinarily raw 2011 memoir about growing up, nearly giving up, and straining to getting a grip on a traumatic past. It follows one of …
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Ari Aster would like you to go back in time. The writer-director of Hereditary and Midsommar doesn’t need you to travel too far. Just five years. You probably remember a few of the details from May 2020: social distancing, social-media diatribes, swabs being thrust violently into nasal cavities, “I Can’t …
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Eight movies. Five directors. Three dozen character actors. Two dozen exotic locales, each one of them the perfect background for globetrotting espionage. A dozen action set pieces. A half dozen peeled-off masks. One best-of-show brawl set in a public bathroom. Numerous car chases, motorcycle chases, helicopter chases, explosions, collateral-damage relationships, …
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David Lynch had a storied history with the Cannes Film Festival. In 1990, the visionary director earned the prestigious honor of winning the Palme d’Or for Wild at Heart. Just over a decade later, he was presented with the award for Best Director for Mulholland Drive in 2001. The following …
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