Movies

In honor of the loss of one of the most important artists to ever live, we thought we’d collect our writing on the masterful David Lynch. From Roger Ebert’s controversial review of “Blue Velvet” to his adoration of “Mulholland...

The directorial thumbprint of David Lynch spawned its own adjective decades ago, perhaps most thoroughly codified by the writer David Foster Wallace. Sent by Premiere magazine to the set of Lynch’s 1997 film “Lost Highway,” Wallace gave a definition...

‘Year 10’Rent or buy it on most major platforms.Ben Goodger’s film starts by informing us that we are a decade into the end of humanity (hence the title) and the few survivors left are resorting to cannibalism. Talk about...

Damn you, James Gunn. You got me again. That’s what I was thinking at the end of the fourth episode of the Max animated series “Creature Commandos.” Titled “Chasing Squirrels” and written by Gunn, the episode reveals the calamitous history...

‘I’m Still Here’This political drama directed by Walter Salles centers on a family in 1970s Brazil whose lives are disrupted by a series of disappearances during the military dictatorship.From our review:“I’m Still Here” does not present as a simple...

A few members of a budding amateur theater company stand in a mostly empty amphitheater, plotting a new production of “Hamlet.” The stage is large and bare, set in a landscape that resembles Southern California. The seats, they dream,...

Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear were big fans of “Moana” — and its earworm-y songs — when they saw the film as teenagers in 2016.So when Disney floated the idea, eight years later, of the TikTok duo writing songs...

David Lynch, whose death, at 78, was announced on Thursday, was one of the most distinctive voices in modern cinema. His work defied easy categorization other than to say it was his own. Hence, the descriptor “Lynchian.” He created...

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx probably got a good workout filming the fight scenes in “Back in Action,” the latest high-gloss junk from Netflix. Clearly the actors earned their paychecks in a way that the person who thought up...