Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a remarkably innovative movie in one respect: It takes a famously crazy farce as its wellspring and uses it as the source material for a relatively earnest teen drama. I’ve...
After France recalled its ambassador from Washington last September to protest a submarine deal between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, many remarked that we had reached the lowest...
The dazzling new movie Last Night in Soho is a bizarro-world version of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Both movies are about the power of nostalgia. Tarantino's wonderful picture took one of modern...
The French Dispatch is bananas, and that’s what’s wonderful about it—when it is wonderful, which isn’t all the time. Wes Anderson’s almost indescribable new movie is a takeoff of a spoof of...
Dune does something I’ve never seen a movie do. It stops. It. Just. Stops. In the middle. It’s not a cliffhanger. It’s not a heart-swelling climactic moment that leaves you wanting more....
I have to confess that The Last Duel takes a little getting used to. It's set in medieval France and it features a scar-riddled Matt Damon sporting facial hair that's almost comically unbecoming—not...
I didn’t think the Bond movies had it in them any longer. After his sensational debut in 2006’s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig starred in two catastrophic duds by anyone’s reckoning (Quantum of Solace...
In The Many Saints of Newark, a man beats his father to death and later drowns his beloved girlfriend in the ocean. And you feel nothing. In this, as in so many other ways, David Chase's new motion picture,...
Rick McGinnis longs for the good old days of television news with a look at Broadcast News
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is like the second-season premiere of a Neil Simon buddy-clash TV sitcom in the guise of a comic-book-superhero-monster movie. You can hear the intro to the show in your head:...
Rick McGinnis continues his journey through the work of director Douglas Sirk, this time looking at his 1959 drama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner and John Gavin
Rick McGinnis on Douglas Sirk's relentless and hyperbolic melodrama Written on the Wind, and his later CinemaScope picture The Tarnished Angels
Rick McGinnis unpacks the mystique and mythology of the City of Angels on film in Los Angeles Plays Itself
There are people for whom eating is no more special than brushing teeth. It’s just a necessity—sustaining the body with nutrients to get through the rest of the day. And then there are those whose...
Rick McGinnis on the master of the Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk, with a particular look at Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows
Author’s note: You need to read this piece until the very end for some very important information you would never have known otherwise.
Space Jam 2 is a movie in the way "processed cheese food" is...
Rick McGinnis on Paddy Chayefsky's The Hospital, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg
The AppleTV+ show ‘Ted Lasso’ is the best watch on streaming, both for its fantastic plot line and because it avoids excessive virtual-signaling.
Today's show starts with a pithy summation by J D Vance and the silence of Canadians as churches burn - and ends with a peaceful edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show and a little bit of semi-French song...
Black Widow is a superhero movie without a superhero, and therefore easily the oddest Marvel product yet. It's the origin story of a pretty boring secondary character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—a...
