SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains spoilers. You’ve seen it so often, you might roll your eyes, but in “Last Days,” it really happens: American missionary John Allen Chau could have died as he approached North Sentinel Island, had the Bible in his breast pocket not absorbed the blow of a hostile Sentinelese arrow. What […]

At Sunday night’s premiere of “Together,” a body-horror film starring real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, the Eccles Theatre erupted with shrieks, nervous laughter and cries of “Oh, shit!” Sundance audiences couldn’t get enough of the gory madness unfolding on-screen, and word quickly spread that “Together,” with its twisty look at relationships and […]

It’s a sign of the times that a good, old-fashioned date movie featuring two of the most bankable movie stars of the early aughts, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, is bypassing theaters altogether in early 2025. When it comes to writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s latest rom-com — if that’s the word for a film where two […]

In the latest turn in the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, a voice message from the “It Ends with Us” director has surfaced in which he apologizes for his brash response to Lively’s version of the now infamous rooftop scene. The voice note, originally obtained by Daily Mail, is a six-minute apology […]

Thirty years ago, a premise like this one might have been the fuel for a conventional Hollywood thriller. But Alex Russell, the writer-director of “Lurker,” works with a jittery cell-phone-camera aesthetic that makes the entire movie a mirror of what it’s aboutRead Morefrom Film

Anthony Mackie took to Instagram Tuesday to clarify his viral comment about what Captain America represents. “Let me be clear about this, I’m a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like [Captain America] is the honor of a lifetime,” Mackie wrote on his Instagram Story. “I have the utmost respect for […]

It’s surprising more contemporary zombie films haven’t been thinly-veiled metaphors for the COVID-19 pandemic. In that vein, Meera Menon’s bleakly amusing “Didn’t Die” has the right idea — one of several remarkable conceptual instincts— though its end result is somewhat scattered. The movie follows sardonic Indian American podcast host Vinita Malhotra (Kiran Deol) through romantic […]