Anne Hathaway is just terrific as a 40-year-old woman swept up by a romance with a boy-bander. Photo: Alisha Wetherill/Prime Hayes Campbell, the 24-year-old love interest played by Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You, is not Harry Styles. But he’s also not not Harry Styles. He’s British, tattooed, loves an oversize cardigan — and …
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? And if a celebrity stars in a movie but is entirely unrecognizable, does it matter? The answer to that first question is self-evident, according to Sasquatch Sunset, which follows a pack of four of the mythical creatures of its title over a year …
Neither a biopic of the recently retired, face-painted pro wrestler, nor a movie about the former lead singer of the Police, Sting is instead a movie about a spider. As even the most amateur arachnologist might tell us, spiders don’t sting — they bite — so is this a particularly egregious case of a studio …
Kansas Bowling’s Cuddly Toys takes an offbeat, surreal, and often disturbing look at the secret lives of teenage girls that coats its subject matter with a little sugar and a lot of salt. Presented by Bowling herself (that’s Professor Kansas Bowling to you), this documentary-style movie blends fictional vignettes with supposedly real interviews. I say …
Michelle Iannantuono bottles the drama and parasocial nightmares of content creation in Livescreamers; a modern spin on the ”If you die in the game, you die for real” horror format. Sometimes, it’s a little too pure in its representation. The opening 20 minutes of Livescreamers is somewhat cringe-inducing as it ticks every possible video game …
Just what is it about nuns that make them such fertile (no pun intended) ground for horror and exploitation movies? Blame it, perhaps, on generations of children educated by strict harridans in habits, who frightened and perhaps humiliated them for stepping out of line. Such early memories can create both deeply ingrained fears and fetishes, …
Cameron and Colin Cairnes summon demonic forces on a 1970s talk show, and the results are hellishly good in Late Night With the Devil. David Dastmalchian stars as Jack Delroy, a television talk show host of Night Owls who has been going up against the legendary Johhny Carson every week for years and never managing …
Millie Bobby Brown in Damsel. Photo: John Wilson/Netflix/Everett Collection Somewhere inside Damsel, Netflix’s new Millie Bobby Brown–starring medieval fantasy tale, is a performance of such sinewy contempt, fragility, and rage that it briefly threatens to upend the entire movie. That it comes from the great Iranian American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shouldn’t surprise anyone. What might, …
Most Christmas-themed horror movies are at least slightly campy, whether they mean to be or not. And if one were to feature an insanely high-concept monster, like, let’s say, a were-porcupine, that might sound even more ludicrous. Yet somehow, Damien LeVeck’s A Creature Was Stirring, which treats both premises entirely seriously, is an efficient and …
By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press In “Next Goal Wins,” a soccer coach comes from far away to lead a hapless group of athletes. He’s a fish-out-of-water type, ill-suited for the job, but rises to the occasion and everyone feels good at the end. Wait, you’re thinking, that’s the plot of “Ted Lasso.” Well, only …