Gigantic reptiles are lounging on warm rocks as yellow grass sways in a gentle breeze. You may be a monster hunter, feller of beasts with a razor-sharp sword, yet a companion has encouraged you to first stop and observe this flora and fauna. Press a button to gaze intensely at these lustrous creatures, learning that … Read more
The jokes might not land, but the drama hits hard. ‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ Directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, this film follows Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a veteran who returns home from Afghanistan and must adjust to civilian life and grapple with the death of her friend Zoe (Natalie Morales). From our review: After World War II, … Read more
Actors may deliver impassioned speeches about achieving their “childhood dreams,” but we don’t often hear about how those sculpting wounds with clay and bubbling skin with latex are fulfilling their lifelong fantasies. “Teenager treats” is how Pierre Olivier Persin, the special effects designer nominated for an Oscar for makeup and hairstyling for “The Substance,” described … Read more
Then, there’s “Dune: Part Two,” a movie so expensive looking, so smoothly, tastefully, artfully done that it’s easy to remain passive in the face of all that’s weird about it. But look! It’s Stellan Skarsgard, plumped, pursy and a-vape, as a baron whose kink, in part, arises from stadium-size gladiatoring. When this series is complete, … Read more
“I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military dictatorship — concludes with a single sentence that delivers a gut punch of historical reality: The five soldiers charged in the killing were never punished because of laws granting them amnesty. Now the film could … Read more
Years after Gene Hackman retired from acting, he was at dinner with a friend in New Mexico who wanted to know how actors were able to cry on cue. “He put his head down at the table for about 30 seconds and raised his head up and there are tears coming down,” the friend, Doug … Read more
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Bad Business A new poll indicates that some Americans feel buyer’s remorse about voting for President Donald Trump. On … Read more
Entertaining With shows how a party came together, with expert advice on everything from menus to music. Nut (pronounced “newt”), the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky, was often depicted as a slender naked woman covered with stars and arched over the earth in a protective downward dog-like stance. She appears in a similar form … Read more
But while the possibility of exciting action always hovers on the periphery, May Adrales’s low-energy production is bereft of any tension. That is an achievement of some kind for a show dealing with covert operations, and one in which a character is traumatized (or claims to be) by the 1998 bombing of the United States … Read more
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