A personal yoga instructor to Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner once wrote a children’s book inspired by their son Nick Reiner, arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents Sunday at their Brentwood home. Published in 2005, A…
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It: Welcome to Derry has repeated one of the big moments of Stephen King’s original "IT" novel, with a group of kids being responsible for defeating Pennywise against all odds. However, this is not something that will necessarily be repeated…
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Asia Kate Dillon and Ridley Asha Bateman in Outerlands After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass,…
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To say James L. Brooks is accomplished is a wild understatement. Starting in television, Brooks went from early work writing on My Mother the Car (when are we going to reboot that?) to creating The Mary Tyler Moore Show and…
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It may not have lived up to the success of the first installment, but Wicked: For Good has certainly proven a hit with audiences, currently sitting on $468 million worldwide. Jon M. Chu's second half of the musical masterpiece has…
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A metatextual exploration of identity, race, privilege, communication, and betrayal, “Gavagai” is a small story with a massive scope. A movie about a movie which is itself an inversion of classic tropes and themes, the film exists on several levels…
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While there have been a lot of great TV thrillers over the last few years, perhaps none have been more unique than a USA Network series that broke new ground in the techno-thriller area. Lasting four seasons between 2015 and…
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Andy and Barbara Muschietti have never been interested in playing it safe. After IT and IT Chapter Two, the brother-and-sister duo weren’t ready to leave Derry, Maine — Stephen King’s cursed playground from the acclaimed novel, IT — and thankfully,…
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The Smashing Machine star Dwayne Johnson and writer-director Benny Safdie tried hard to tell the story of UFC fighter Mark Kerr truthfully — especially in the fight scenes. The film follows Kerr, played by Johnson, as he rises in the…
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Fans of Heated Rivalry have gotten an early holiday present as the hit series has been confirmed for Season 2. Based on Rachel Reid's Game Changer series of books, Heated Rivalry follows two professional hockey players, Canadian Shane Hollander (Hudson…
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BENITA Recipient of DOC NYC 2024’s Lifetime Achievement Award (as well as the 2025 Pennebaker Career Achievement Award at the upcoming Hamptons Doc Fest), the “virtuoso of essayistic documentary” Alan Berliner (Letter to the Editor, First Cousin Once Removed) returns…
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Two of the Stephen King adaptations we’ve gotten this year have revolved around “games.” In The Long Walk, a group of young recruits must march forward until the last man is left standing. At least one person was inclined to…
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