AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar14 hours agoReview | ‘Godzilla x Kong’ is here to please your lizard brainverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Amy NicholsonEvolution doesn’t always stomp forward in a straight line. It’s been less than a month since the Japanese action-drama “Godzilla Minus One” made Godzilla respectable and won the nuclear-powered lizard the first Oscar of his 70-year career. Now comes the Hollywood blockbuster “Godzilla x Kong: The …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoReview | ‘Steve! (Martin)’ is a smart and charming portrait of a smart and charming manverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Jessica Kiang“I’m so proud to receive this,” said Steve Martin, accepting the 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “The only significant American award for comedy, except for money.” It’s a perfectly judged quip, delivered with late-period Martin’s trademark deadpan grandiosity. But it’s not quite true. A …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoReview | The zany ‘Dogman’ is like ‘Joker’ with dogs — and dragverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Jen YamatoFor all that the chameleonic Caleb Landry Jones is doing in Luc Besson’s zany genre-blender “Dogman” — reciting Shakespeare to his dozens of very, very good doggos, commanding them to pull off “Bling Ring”-like jewel heists, delivering a rapturous performance in full Édith Piaf drag down to the …
AvatarThe Washington Post2 days ago‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’: How Sandy Hook lies got peddled for profitverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Jada YuanAUSTIN — Robbie Parker’s 6-year-old daughter, Emilie, had been dead for less than 48 hours, gunned down alongside 19 of her classmates and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went on Infowars and claimed Parker was “a soap opera actor” …
AvatarThe Washington Post3 days agoRegina King always chooses daring stories. One chose her.verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Helena Andrews-DyerOn some mornings, Regina King opens her eyes to a set of questions: Can I do this? Why am I doing this? Am I taking care of myself? The answers come as a choice: Stay in or go out there. Onto the red carpet. Into the world. But with a movie to promote (Netflix’s “Shirley”) and more projects on her …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar6 days agoReview | ‘Road House’: All brawn, no brain and very little funverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Ann Hornaday“Road House” was not a success when it first came out in 1989, but it became a huge hit on home video and beyond, not least because it was such a perfect artifact of its era: The mullets! The casual sexism! The Sam Elliott realness! Not to mention the Patrick Swayze of it all. Capitalizing on “Dirty …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarReview | In ‘Shirley,’ an underestimated Black congresswoman in an undercooked filmverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Ann HornadayRegina King gives a lively, convincing portrayal of pioneering U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in “Shirley,” an earnest, curiously listless biopic of a woman whose legacy suffuses modern life, even as it goes unacknowledged. In 1968, Chisholm became the first African American woman to serve as a …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarInside a weekend at Freaknik, Atlanta’s wild ’90s street partyverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Janay KingsberryIt just so happened that Melanie Armstrong and her fiancé were “on a break” when she and her best friend boarded a flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta for the weekend. So she left her engagement ring behind and packed her flyest outfits — tight shirts and halter tops, mini skirts and baggy …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarReview | ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ is a shade of the originalverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Ty BurrWhatever element of surprise there once was in the Ghostbusters franchise has long been exorcised, but that’s okay: Hollywood assumes audiences don’t want to be surprised anymore, and it’s probably right. The 2016 all-female “Ghostbusters” wasn’t half bad but got caught in the culture war’s …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarReview | In Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Immaculate,’ nunsploitation is backverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Jen YamatoA young American nun encounters shocking horrors at a remote Italian convent in “Immaculate,” a modern Gothic slow burn that simmers in pedestrian frights until it finally boils over into bursts of delicious, gory violence. When it does, anchored by an impressive performance by Sydney Sweeney, the …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarOpen letter criticizing Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech gains signaturesverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Herb ScribnerSeveral hundred Jewish Hollywood creatives have reportedly signed an open letter condemning filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech at the 96th Academy Awards. The letter, shared with trade publications on Monday, criticized how Glazer addressed the Israel-Gaza conflict after his film “The …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarStormy Daniels doc is a portrait of a woman destroyed by Donald Trumpverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Jada YuanAUSTIN — The Stormy Daniels affair that in 2018 consumed Donald Trump’s presidency — after his attorney Michael Cohen violated the law by paying $130,000 to the adult-film star to keep silent — may feel like old news. But it’s far from over. And that was abundantly clear at this month’s South by …