Movies

“I’m unemployed. I’m not cool. If I’m not young anymore, then what am I even?”There is no shortage of stellar writing on this season of FX’s “Adults,” and much of it is hilarious—so much so that at one point...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX“The Big Lebowski““The Bling Ring““The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo““The Green Knight““I Swear““Moneyball““The Outrun““Poor Things““The Shallows““Swiss Army Man“15 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD“American Dream” (Criterion)“Harlan County, USA” (Criterion)A new film by Barbara Kopple is an event for documentary...

It’s an understatement to say that games like “Uncharted” and “The Last of Us” have had a profound impact on the video game industry. As cornerstones of narrative-driven games, they’ve inspired many studios to replicate the cinematic formula to...

When answering the Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire in 2012, the late Dolly Parton said her motto was “Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.” Parton’s life was lived to the fullest and cannot easily be summed up...

From practically the moment that it first hit theaters in June of 1977, “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” John Boorman’s follow-up to William Friedkin’s enormously successful 1973 adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s best-seller, has been written off as one of...

A teenage boy talks to his machine, giving it commands.His first task begins innocently enough: “Stand on one foot,” the boy says. The machine obeys.His second task reveals a sinister edge: to target nearby onlookers. The boy orders his...

Fred Rogers’s song “What do you do with the Mad that you Feel” comes to mind when watching director Alexander Ullom’s existential road-trip nightmare, “It Ends.” In his song, Rogers articulates a need for vessels to place our rage,...