How COVID-19 created the accidental summer of drive-ins
Drive-in theaters are experiencing a strange resurgence, now that coronavirus has rendered the traditional theater experience impossible.
Drive-in theaters are experiencing a strange resurgence, now that coronavirus has rendered the traditional theater experience impossible.
Joel Schumacher’s fun, stylish take on teen vampires both ushered in “MTV horror” & acknowledged young female horror fans.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s world-changing musical comes to vivid life on Disney+, but can’t escape the complexities of its cultural dissonance.
Finally out from under the shadow of its filmic inspiration, the Amazon series treads new ground in its second season.
David France’s gut-wrenching documentary on the state-sanctioned purge of GLBT people in Chechnya is an excellent expose of the atrocities and portrait of the heroes in Russia.
Spike Lee explores the painful history of Blackness in American warfare with this lengthy, but gripping, Vietnam epic.
Jeffrey McHale explores the circuitous route the NC-17 flop took from Razzie shame to midnight fame.
Stephen Frears’ new miniseries is a deft three episodes that shifts perspectives and plots with ease, even if it doesn’t completely pay off.
Ryan Murphy’s latest show for Netflix is a glitzy alternate history that gives power to the marginalized.
One of Spike Lee’s most underrated films depicts a New York in which the more things change, the more racism stays the same.
Ricky Tollman’s directorial debut has great ingredients, but they add up to a terrible stew.
Al Pacino leads a team of Nazi Hunters in a brassy Amazon series stuffed with Holocaust pathos and comic-book sleaze.
Hulu’s gender flipped, more diverse take on Nick Hornby’s modern classic about entitled men-children has charm & heart.
The DCEU embraces its inner Bugs Bunny, and is all the better for it.
Season 12 continues its upward trajectory with a perfectly-fine adventure with a few interesting supporting players.
The Childrens’ Hospital spinoff takes on the spy-action genre with double the length and about as many laughs.
“Sesame Street” and “Co-op” songwriter Eli Bolin explains how he crafted the catchy, kid-friendly tunes for “John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch”.
From HBO (Chernobyl, Watchmen, Succession) to Netflix (Russian Doll, The Crown, Stranger Things) and beyond, we break down the best TV of the year.
From Ad Astra to Us, we celebrate the cream of the cinematic crop in 2019.
Mrs. Coulter is rejected once again, and the Gyptians ride in to rescue the missing children.
The cult-hit space opera heads to Amazon for a bigger budget, wider scope, and renewed sense of purpose.