Film
Motell Gyn Foster in Anya.
In devising Anya, a contemporary drama about a couple who encounter an unsuspected genetic wall when they try to have a child, filmmakers Jacob Akira... |
Michael Shannon and Benedict Cumberbatch face off in The Current War.
Buffalonian William Kemmler was an illiterate drunkard who made a living selling vegetables from a cart in the 1880s. |
 The big film release of the weekend — on Netflix, as so often happens these days — is Dolemite Is My Name, the first film that star-producer Eddie... |
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
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Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in Judy.
It’s no secret that the cult of Judy Garland fans were drawn to her suffering as much as to her abilities as a performer. |
Keira Knightley as whistleblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets.
In an era when the political scene brings new outrages with the regularity of a ticking clock, it’s worth remembering—or, if you’re young enough, learning—that... |
Piranhas
The market for books and movies about the Mafia has never much diminished, but it got a shot in the arm in 2006 with the publication of Gomorrah,... |
This is going to hurt: Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale.
What it is, it’s the return of the Ludovico Technique. |