Nowadays, Mickey Rourke resembles an old, beaten-up pit bull. He’s ragged, physically deformed, but still standing. Come boxing, alcohol and drug abuse, mental demons, and more than a decade of loneliness, nothing could knock out the once sexiest actor on the planet.
But, to get to the level of self-knowledge…
Love Hard is a Netflix Christmas movie. There’s an important distinction, though: it’s also an Instagram Christmas movie. Meaning: there are way-too-attractive people everywhere in it (if we don’t count the male lead. Sorry, Jimmy). Almost everyone and everything shines as if they’ve been shot with a Clarendon filter.
The…
2007 wasn’t a good year for Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi — or Topher Grace (who?) for that matter. That year the dynamic duo — a millennial hero and a celebrated director — was having backlash, big time.
Spider-Man fans went into cinemas with a big smile on their face…
The first season of Showtime’s crime drama, American Rust, indulges in its own bleak small-town depression. Violence, adversity, and drugs are the foundations of this tiny Pennsylvanian place called Buell and its people. This is white-trash country, ladies and gents, there’s no doubt about it.
The plot revolves around an…
As rumors have been flying around for months about a possible multiverse meeting — reuniting all three Spider-Men in Spider-Man: No Way Home — I’ve decided to revisit Sam Raimi’s classic trilogy. This is Chapter Two. You can read Chapter One here.
I know how obnoxious those people are who arrogantly draw attention to their own birthdays. I don’t like them. So forgive me, but now I’m going to do whatever I want because today is my day. I have a pass. It says: “Screw everyone and do whatever you like.”
It’s…
When we first see Dr. Finnix (Michael Keaton) in Hulu’s new TV show, Dopesick, he’s in a courtroom — testifying before a grand jury in 2005. He looks sick: pale, sweaty, worn out. He’s visibly on the verge of crying. He’s about to answer a question posed by prosecutors: “Dr…
As rumors have been flying around for months about a possible multiverse meeting — reuniting all three Spider-Men in Spider-Man: No Way Home — I’ve decided to revisit Sam Raimi’s classic trilogy. This is Chapter One.
When I was a kid, I’d been so obsessed with Spider-Man that I programmed…
The first twenty minutes of Lamb is a drag. Writer-director, Valdimar Jóhannsson paints a dreadful and painstakingly accurate picture of the rural farming life in Iceland. It’s what you imagine: grim, isolated, boring as hell. Then, what writers refer to as the inciting incident, happens: a baby lamb is born…
