Movies

The Cannes Film Festival is taking off today, May 12th. Well known as one of the most famous film festivals in the world, it’s also known as one of the most exclusive. Although tens of thousands of people come...

In the run-up to the 78th Cannes Film Festival, which takes place May 13-24, Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring a multiplex that only shows 100% American films be erected on Alcatraz.Okay, I made up the part about the...

I had only three days to prepare for the screen test and audition, which wasn’t as much time as I’d like. So I tried to go as broad as possible, and then shrink it down and go as specific...

‘Reversi’Stream it on Netflix.“Time waits for no one,” Akid (Beto Kusyairy) says. Except for him, that is. He comes from a family in which people can travel back to the past. The mechanics are fuzzy but there are some...

Is this the cure to male loneliness?‘Friendship’Tim Robinson stars as Craig, a lonely, awkward suburban dad who develops an obsession with the effortlessly cool Austin (Paul Rudd) in this comedy directed by Andrew DeYoung.From our review:Robinson’s performance … injects...

Except Craig, being a certain variety of grown American man, doesn’t have friends, per se. He has Tami, who is almost unbelievably nice to him given he’s sort of a putz: obsessed with avoiding Marvel spoilers, loyal to only...

In an age of absurdly serialized storytelling and streaming series that structure their seasons like a “ten-hour movie,” Buddha bless shows like “Poker Face.” Sure, there are the odd threads that pop up at the beginning of the season...

There have been scores (sorry) of musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s tragedy of star-crossed lovers over the centuries. Not just operas — there’s Berlioz’s dramatic symphony; Prokofiev’s ballet; the comedic jukebox musical on Broadway, “& Juliet,” in which the heroine...