By day, Marisa Carpico stresses over America’s election system. By night, she becomes a pop culture obsessive. Whether it’s movies, TV or music, she watches and listens to it all so you don’t have to.
Heathers (1988) isn't the most obvious choice for a musical adaptation. A subversive, darkly comic satire about high school social hierarchies, its murderous central...
In 2017, director Kogonada released Columbus. Essentially a two-hander starring John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson as two people who form an unlikely connection...
Novelist Elena Ferrante is perhaps best known for her Neapolitan novels. HBO's ongoing adaptation of those works, My Brilliant Friend, is filled with a...
Compared to much of his rather fantastic, even magical, output, director Guillermo del Toro's latest, Nightmare Alley, is relatively straightforward. Based on William Lindsay...
With 2015's Tangerine and 2017's The Florida Project, writer-director Sean Baker felt like he was carving out his own genre in modern Hollywood filmmaking....
Last year, Tello Films (a network dedicated to telling stories about queer women) released one of the biggest surprises of the holiday romance season...
Kenneth Branagh has spent much of his writing/directing/acting career adapting classic works–many of the Shakespeare's–but with his latest film, Belfast, which he wrote and...
The pandemic has derailed many films' original release strategies, but perhaps few as significantly as director Scott Cooper's new horror film, Antlers. Originally slated...
