At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps for that alone Maggie Gyllenhaal is deserving of some kudos. Unfortunately everything else about her woefully misguided take on The Bride of Frankenstein invites ridicule rather than recognition, to the extent that watching The Bride! … Read more
ABC To say that ABC’s new drama series “R.J. Decker” opens with a bang would be an understatement. Within minutes of the March 3 series premiere, the titular character (Scott Speedman) is getting down and dirty in the backseat of his car while he awaits his sentencing in an assault trial. The catch? The … Read more
With 483 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of 3.6 seconds, the GV60 delivers performance that feels quick even if it’s no longer absorbing bumps. Courtesy Genesis When I review cars, I keep a little file in my notes app called “Nice Touch.” This helps me remember the little things that set vehicles apart. Drivers can … Read more
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University amid a campus review of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard University announced Wednesday. Summers, who has been on leave since November and whose name appears hundreds of times in newly released Epstein files, will leave at the end of the academic … Read more
The supporting cast fair no better. Edward Linton (Shazad Latif) is also retooled, now a nice but dull man who lives in a house so antithetical to his sensibilities it’s laughable we’re asked to believe he decorated it in such a manner. His ward Isabella Linton is a simple, spoiled young woman in awe of Cathy until she sets … Read more
No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual flair and deadpan drollery of Wes Anderson or Yorgos Lanthimos, is based on a graphic novel that reinterprets the One Thousand and One Nights as a queer fairy tale about a kingdom that suppresses women’s education in service … Read more
Thank the Lord Jesus, we have yet another Dracula movie! Sure, yes, it was just over a year ago that we were blessed with Robert Eggers’ ruthlessly stylish Nosferatu, a movie I put in my top 10 of 2024 even though I struggled through a rewatch shortly thereafter, but now we have a notably less … Read more
When an actor takes on multiple roles in a movie, you’re forced to wonder if this casting choice has been made to stoke the actor’s ego (and maybe earn them a bit more cash), or as a necessary component of the screen storytelling. Dylan O’Brien delivers two remarkable performances in James Sweeney’s indie-flavoured anti-romcom, Twinless: one as Roman, a hangdog … Read more
Say what you will about Gore Verbinski’s new hard-to-describe sci-fi comedy-thriller Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, but let’s at least agree he goes for broke. What feels like the class clown version of 12 Monkeys with a sprinkling of Everything, Everywhere All at Once, Verbinski’s latest is a quirky, humorous tale stacked with odd … Read more
A jagoff city boy heads deep into the Australian outback to seek his fortune, but finds only vice, macho posturing and ritualised drunken kangaroo massacres. That film is Ted Kotcheff’s sand-blasted nightmare from 1971, Wake In Fright, but its plot bares uncanny resemblance to the cheery PG-rated shenanigans of Kangaroo by director Kate Woods. Here, … Read more