Speaking for the Los Angeles creeps, ghoulies, and sadists, there’s an even split in the festivities (or lack thereof) for this year’s rainy ...

Shit starts getting pretty embarrassing once you find yourself admitting when art makes you feel seen. The older you get, the more alarming ...

The following contains spoilers for THE DRAMA A close friend once told me, “Nobody is more passionate about any movie than you are ...

A boring ceremony with a bounty of thrilling races, the 98th Academy Awards made for combative bloodsport, where competing ballots were accompanied by ...

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There are few theater-wide reactions more unifying than an auditorium of squinting, face-palming attendees thinking, “What is this fucking bitch doing?” Rose doesn’t ...

My collecting habits in 2025, as they have in most years, functioned in a pocket between selective and impulsive. For a film like ...

Once a year and change, I find myself revisiting Spike Jonze’s 2013 opus, HER. The film is a dreamy and melancholic portrait of ...

Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to be invited to Chevalier’s Books for a Q&A with Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell and film director Chloé ...

The ghost of Charlie Kirk crawled out deep beneath miles of minerals and asphalt to suck me off in my sleep last night. ...