Michelle Yeoh and Brendan Fraser talk about The Mummy 3 and more! “Topics covered include: the magic of practical effects, living out of a suitcase, calculated risks, mapping the multiverse on a blackboard, Everything Everywhere and The Whale’s themes of forgiveness, films that open hearts, fighting to be original, total collaboration, […]
Our friends at The Projection Booth watch Top Secret (1984): “Released in 1984, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker’s Top Secret is a send up of both Elvis movies and WWII espionage films. It’s a very odd duck which stars Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, a teen idol who has […]
Abigail Nussbaum writes about the ennui of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s Phase 4. “There’s a void at the heart of the franchise, and while new characters may eventually come to fill it, right now feels not at all unlike where we were during phase one, still trying to […]
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan celebrate Galentines Day at the Filmi Ladies podcast! “Happy Galentine’s Day (a day late) to all our filmi ladies of every gender identity! Today’s episode looks at women’s friendships in Hindi cinema. There are very few films that focus on […]
At Vulture, Sam Adler-Bell considers recent ‘Eat the Rich ‘ movies including The Menu (2022), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Glass Onion (2022), and Parasite (2019). “The true villains of our time are ensconced in cocoons of comfort, immune to accountability. They enjoy their lives; they are not burdened […]
As Max Castor and Anthony Bowens, a tag team known as The Acclaimed, step through the ropes of the AEW ring, thousands of fans–many male and statistically very likely to be cis-hetero-identifying–sing in unison to the tune of the main riff from “Seven Nation Army” by the White […]
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