Patterns, history, tradition. These are often the only tools that showbiz awards prognosticators have at their disposal.
It emerges as a dramedy exploring how gay men clumsily negotiate the appropriate distance to place between the words “friends” and “benefits.”
Even in comparatively conventional mode, Bill Morrison’s work still benefits from the poetic potential of nature’s repossession of its own elements.
Sensation aims to glide over where hollow, platitudinous words themselves fail in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
The intimacy and personal interactions of Grey Gardens changed the course of documentary filmmaking.
For anyone who prefers their assertive homilies to crust over like a syrupy sweet, this loose adaptation of Langston Hughes’s beloved holiday tradition will come on like a dream fulfilled.
One Direction’s third album is their ’roidy bid to graduate from boy-bandom.
To movie fans, JFK is the centerpiece for any defense of the persuasive powers of the medium.
No paddleball could possibly contain as many dimensions as Vincent Price’s silken voice.
Are the micro-biopics that lean on the spectacle of celebrity impersonation the new camp?
You’d have to be blind not to recognize its unflinching achievements.
The chief intention of Celine Dion’s Loved Me Back to Life is to pass for contemporary.
Luckily for Divine, he had a network of misfits and castoffs to support and, eventually, launch him into the limelight.
The lesson of Love to Love You Donna isn’t so much “don’t mess with perfection,” but rather “don’t bother trying to gild the lily of genius.”
This dire remake’s script is often a word-for-word recitation of the first film.
A Mary Christmas is an undeniably listenable but sadly too-safe hodgepodge of department-store standards.
The 35th anniversary Blu-ray release of Halloween will do the job until the inevitable 40th, 45th, and 50th anniversary releases.
Alfonso Cuarón’s triumph is an invigoratingly clean, elegant display of action choreography.
Ultimately, The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 doesn’t so much eclipse its predecessor as it settles into the format more believably.