This weekend, Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen in a way that no one has seen him before. The wrestler-turned-actor is letting go of stacking up big box office dollars and is flexing his acting muscles in The Smashing Machine, written and directed by Benny Safdie. Johnson takes on the role
On October 1, 2010, The Social Network opened nationwide and became an instant classic in the process. While a movie about the founding of Facebook might not seem like a nailbiter, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin presented the story with a sense of urgency that allowed the film
Mark Wahlberg is back this week in the action thriller, Play Dirty, the latest from director Shane Black, who also shares screenwriting duties with Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Wahlberg's career as an actor has been interesting because he went from being a former rapper and underwear model
Dwayne Johnson is ready to prove to moviegoers that he is more than a charming box office star with what is said to be a transformative performance in The Smashing Machine, which hits screens this weekend. It's a different direction for the wrestler-turned-actor, and it has yet to be determined if
This weekend, The Strangers: Chapter 2 hits screens and will continue the head-scratching decision to move full steam ahead with this franchise as a new trilogy of films. The Strangers: Chapter 1 was a haphazard remake of sorts of the superior 2008 film, directed by Bryan Bertino, which debuted
Paul Thomas Anderson arrives this weekend with his tenth film, One Battle After Another, which has already garnered some of the best reviews of his career. The last Anderson film to hit the big screen was 2021's Licorice Pizza, so cinephiles everywhere are excited to see what the prolific director
Leonardo DiCaprio returns to the big screen this weekend in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, and it's shaping up to be another critical win for one of the best actors of his generation. DiCaprio has always had a great eye for picking the right films that showcase his talent, but
The Alien series has had nine movies so far, with the release of Alien: Romulus. With that release, there's been a ramp-up in discussion about the series as a whole and just what are the best films. Here's the top 5 films in the Alien series. 5. Alien Covenant With Alien: Covenant, director Ridley
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
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The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
