By Anne Brodie Elvis, Baz Lurhman's 2-hour and 39-minute hallucination fable comes at you like shot from a pellet gun, blasting from one nerve point to the next in rapid, head-spinning succession, bouncing from style to style, plot point to end-it-all motifs to tight closeups of Austin …
Inuit Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk’s Impressive Feature Debut Slash/Back a Tantalising Brew of Tradition, Modernity, and Monsters.
Inuit filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's genre-busting Slash/Back is probably the sweetest film of its kind, a sci-fi variation on Little Women, set in remote Pangnirtung, Nunavut, or Pang. Preteens Maika (Tasiana Shirley), Jesse (Alexis Vincent-Wolfe), Leena (Chelsea Pruksy), and Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth) …
Cooper Raiff, Boy Genius, on Love, Pain and the Whole Darn Thing :)
Twenty-six-year-old movie-making wunderkind Cooper Raiff's second coming-of-age film Cha Cha Real Smooth is on AppleTV+, a heart-tugging portrait of a young man becoming an adult. Raiff is Andrew; he has a degree but lives at his mother's and works at Meat Sticks. By chance, he becomes a "party …
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Meet the Cast of The Bear, a Terrific New Series Set in a Hot, Cramped Diner Kitchen Under Stress.
FX' The Bear on Hulu The FX Orginal series The Bear on Hulu takes place in the bustling, hot kitchen of the Original Beef of Chicagoland. It's a family-owned diner inherited by fine dining international award-winning chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) on the death of his brother. He gives up his …
A Wildly Diverse Collection of Entertainments This Week Starting with the Mighty Emma Thompson in a Sex Romp.
By Anne Brodie Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a witty and provocative portrait of an uptight former school teacher Nancy played with vulnerability by Emma Thompson who has never had an orgasm, experienced oral sex, or much pleasure at all in her 31-year marriage. She's a bundle of anxieties but …