Photo: Warner Bros. This post contains mild spoilers for Sinners. Sinners is a movie unafraid to look silly. The vampire epic is Ryan Coogler’s “one for me” after nearly a decade in the Marvel trenches, and it has the feel of a filmmaker following his muse, whether that means three separate depictions of or …
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Photo: Sepideh Farsi The film world was shocked yesterday to learn of the death of Fatma Hassona, a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and the subject of Sepideh Farsi’s documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Hassona was killed along with her …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Daniele Venturelli, Rodin Eckenroth), Mike Marsland/WireImage There’s one way to guarantee you won’t get cast in the new HBO adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, and that’s by speaking out about the British author’s victory lap after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that gender can only be determined …
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Photo: ABC/YouTube Doctor Odyssey is the show that keeps on giving far more than we could have asked for. It may seem impossible that this cruise trip fever-dream medical drama is even capable of pulling off a new surprising twist — how do you deliver a genuine shocker when everything is cuckoo bananas? By going …
Photo: Courtesy of Les Films Impéria This article is regularly updated as films leave and enter the Criterion Channel. While classic film fans continue to panic over movies being increasingly lost to history in the streaming era, the Criterion Channel is alive and well, meaning the majority of the Criterion Collection’s catalogue of classic …
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Photo: Apple TV+ It’s been ten weeks since the robbery, and Theresa and Shermy the dog are the last two urban cowpokes standing at the old makeshift homestead motel. A standoff with the Aryan bikers outside is quickly revealed to be a trap set by the DEA. As the show’s ever-ballooning case and central …
Luka Cyprian/Luka Cyprian This review was originally published on January 30 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to The Wedding Banquet’s theatrical release. “We can get gay-married, why would we want to get fake straight-married?” So observed The Wedding Banquet director Andrew Ahn at the world premiere of …
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Photo: Warner Bros. The script for Sinners began circulating among studios in Hollywood in the winter of 2023 and resulted in a bidding war by January last year: a wild drama-thriller cum survival-horror flick set in Jim Crow–era Mississippi featuring blues-music set pieces, steamy sex scenes, Deep South occultism and dozens of Riverdancing vampires. …
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Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images When George Clooney sat down with Jake Tapper on April 16 to discuss the fallout of his Joe Biden op-ed from last summer as well as his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck, there was something … different about him. No, it wasn’t his signature velveteen voice, nor …
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Photo: Focus Films/Everett Collection Joe Wright’s 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice has aged, but it’s done so beautifully. The movie, back in theaters for its 20th anniversary, is well worth a revisit, both for the ways in which it’s changed and for the ways in which it hasn’t. 20 years ago, its moody …
