‘Captain America: Brave New World’: What if a bad president had self-awareness?
Movie review: In an ironic statement on our times, a comic-book villain’s actions now represent hopeful possibilities rather than warnings.
‘Captain America: Brave New World’: What if a bad president had self-awareness?
Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ (1966) is a book I could read again
Book club book report: Capote uses cold, hard facts to ask timelessly unanswerable questions about human nature and justice.
Old friends, new enemies enhance ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (2004-05)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): Smartly interlaced storytelling puts “TMNT” at its highest ebb of craftsmanship outside of early Mirage and the first movie.
‘Gaudy Night’ (1935) explores chaos of changing times on campus
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Ambitious yet flawed, the Oxford-set 10th Wimsey novel is an essential read for fans of Sayers’ alter-ego Harriet Vane.
‘StageFright’ (1987) hits slasher beats right between the eyes
Frightening Friday (Movie review): This Italian theater-set slasher is drenched in style, and offers a respectable English dub.
‘Falling Down’ (1993) is worth snapping up as a vicarious thrill
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Hypocritical, ironic and uncomfortable, one of Joel Schumacher’s most talked-about films is hard to pin down.
James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ is very Gunn and very 2025
Movie review: The “Guardians of the Galaxy” helmer balances the launch of the DCU with a love letter to the Reeve-era “Superman.”
‘Have His Carcase’ (1932) coasts along with multiple intrigues
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Sayers’ interest in the procedure of detection remains, but this second Wimsey-Vane collaboration operates on additional levels.
‘Sorority Row’ (2009) lines up worst traits of the Naughties
Frightening Friday (Movie review): They’ll always know what you did last semester, but that doesn’t mean the paces have to be quite so formulaic.
‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) ingeniously makes the whole film into a maguffin
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): In his masterwork of dark comedy, Tarantino relies on the audience’s cinema knowledge to cleverly invert the crime genre’s traditional message.