Movies

The premise of the Glen Powell vehicle “Chad Powers” is ridiculous and doesn’t get any less so in season two. This is still a show about Russ Holliday, an epic flame-out of a quarterback, and his attempt to regain...

It’s funny sometimes how issues with a game can be overwhelmed by what it does well. Every gamer has a few titles that they adore that they’d admit don’t have the strongest storytelling, just addictive gameplay. There are platformers...

Jane Schoenbrun’s films examine how desires can only fester for so long. Now, with the release of “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” the director of the 2024 A24 hit “I Saw the TV Glow” has crafted a...

As a journalist, I only had a few brief interactions with the late Michael Wright, mainly at industry functions and movie premieres. But the one I think about most had nothing to do with his filmography, which included “The...

“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...