Hollywood Finally Grants a Day Off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wait, MLK day wasn’t a paid holiday for one of Hollywood’s key unions until now?
Film & TV
The Velvet Underground on the Wrong Side of History
Todd Haynes, an Ivy League Spike Lee, idolizes middle-class wannabe rebels of the 1960s.
The Many Saints of Newark Departs from David Chase’s Sopranos Storytelling
David Chase’s feature-film return to the world of Tony Soprano has been getting middling-to-negative reviews and it deserves them.
Sick, but Not in a Good Way
Halloween Kills offers too much violence and virtually no wit.
Bergman Island — Escapism for Yuppies
Culture-vulture lives matter in Hansen-Love’s banal flick.
Medieval Madness
Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel is a violent visit to a strange time, not a #MeToo for the Middle Ages.
The Chair and the Inevitability of Conservatism in Hollywood
No matter how hard they try, people who tell stories for a living inevitably wind up producing tales with popular conservative characters and conservative themes.
Dave Chappelle Is Not a Transphobe
In The Closer, Chappelle discusses a transgender friend whose own family defends him against charges of insensitivity. Where’s the crime?
James Bond Gets COVID in No Time to Die
The action series succumbs to exhaustion and goes tone-deaf.
Sand in the Gears: A Gorgeous but Slow Trip to Dune
Virtually all of Dune is scene-setting, world-building, setup. It may be the longest prologue ever made.