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On the surface, Touch seems to be a sudden change of pace for Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, a quiet and polished film-of-the-book (in this case, the novel of the same name by fellow countryman Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson) that could easily pass for a BBC…

There’s funny, there’s very funny, and then there’s Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's riotous new comedy that brings more laughs to Broadway than all the Gutenberg!s, Edelmans and Birbiglias combined. You can throw in Shucked for good measure. Escola, low-key famous these last few years through YouTube…

The original Twister, released in 1996, emerged during a golden age in Hollywood that erased the previously held threshold that kept A-list actors away from B-movie material. It didn't get much better than casting John Malkovich as Cyrus the Virus in Jerry Bruckheimer's 1997 blockbuster bruiser Con Air…

Writer-director Osgood Perkins is aiming straight at his celebrated father’s status at the top of the most memorable and creepy character in the history of movies. The filmmaker’s dad was the great Anthony Perkins who of course played the unforgettable and…

Chemistry has always been Hollywood's secret sauce, and, for rom-coms at least, the high-water mark remains the pairing of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Most cineastes can name their first collaboration (Pillow Talk in 1959), but the others — Lover Come Back…

"Every day I have that test," insisted Joe Biden tonight on ABC of the calls for the president taking a cognitive test . "Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world, and that's not hyperbole." The president was speaking to George Stephanopoulos in a damage control interview that aired in…

There may have not been as much television in 2024 so far as in previous years, but there was a Hell of a lot of great TV in the first half of this year. The harsh beauty of FX's Shōgun, the depths of Baby Reindeer and Big Mood, the wit of Diarra from Detroit, and the surprising scope of X-Men '97…

It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy first exploded onto the screen as one of his signature characters, Axel Foley, in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. But even if that 22 year old is now 63, he is still on the beat and doesn’t miss a beat…

It wouldn't be a film festival without at least one timely, harrowing emigrant story, but just when you might think the stylistic possibilities have been exhausted — from documentary, to vérité-style fiction and occasionally a dash of deadpan comedy (like Ben Sharrock's wonderful Limbo, 2020) — along…

The world is a wasteland, dead bodies illuminated by covering the earth to the luridly lit horizon, drums thundering and voices rising in a choral tide; Kalki 2898 AD is massive from the word go. Enter Krishna, mounted on a chariot drawn by four suitably apocalyptic black horses, to curse the battle's…

If there was any winner in Thursday night’s first presidential debate, it was CNN. If there was a loser, it was absolutely Joe Biden. Throwing the already tight race into a tailspin for the faltering incumbent almost from the very beginning, the most memorable line maybe Biden's inability to finish…

The original title of the new romantic comedy A Family Affair was the much-edgier MotherF*&#er, and despite being very funny in terms of the basic story of an older woman who starts an affair with the younger movie-star boss of her 24-year-old daughter, it…