Rebooting the Halloween franchise as a three-film cycle comes with a paradox: John Carpenter only ever intended the Michael Myers narrative to last for two films. With [...]
It would be hard to think of a more iconic or dynamic early 90s collaboration than Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott. Tarantino had just burst onto the scene with Reservoir [...]
Amsterdam is essentially a return to the millennial eccentricity that David O. Russell cemented with I Heart Huckabees. That film was followed by the longest blank period in [...]
Matt Reeves’ version of Batman feels as distinct from Christopher Nolan as Nolan himself felt distinct from Tim Burton. While the story is quite familiar from previous [...]
Adam McKay’s latest release, Don’t Look Up, seems to have had an impact – for the last week, Google has showed trending searches about asteroids; their size, their [...]
As the mid-00s arrived, and it became harder for Hollywood directors to tap into the feel-good spirit of the romcom 90s, a whole new second wave of films emerged – films [...]
Tom’s Brown Body is the first true crime podcast from Texas Monthly and deals with a very Texan victim – at least on the surface. Over eight episodes, journalist Skip [...]
Thelma & Louise must have seemed truly visionary for women who watched it in 1991, since Callie Khouri’s screenplay still seems ahead of its time, yearning towards a [...]
Along with Dirty John, Dr. Death has become a flagship podcast for Wondery – an advertisement for the brand and channel as much as an investigation into Christopher [...]
West Cork is a remarkably lyrical and sensitive look at the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Drinane, County Cork, Ireland, on December 23, 1996. Sophie was a French [...]