There are good rom-coms, bad rom-coms, and so-bad-they’re-good rom-coms. And then there’s Failure To Launch, a 2006 Matthew McConaughey/Sarah Jessica Parker vehicle so inexplicably bizarre it almost feels like a meta parody of every terrible romantic comedy trope. With a slight shift in tone, Failure To Launch could’ve…

Steven Spielberg’s films have left an indelible mark on countless childhoods, giving generations of movie fans opportunities to come together through seemingly universal experiences—whether it’s with movies that are explicitly about growing up or movies that are simply so timeless that everyone at any point in their…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Coming 2 America now available to rent from home, we’re offering our own belated sequel to a past Watch This theme and singing the praises of more good comedy…

Matthew McConaughey has been a lot of things over the course of various careers: He’s been a beach bum, an immortal wizard, the star of The Beach Bum, a guy who drives Lincolns, a bourbon spokesman, a rom-com icon, a guy in a Chevelle picking up high school girls, a god visiting from the heavens to enjoy our human Olympics

At its heart, the Toy Story franchise has always featured pretty heavy meditations on mortality, loss, and letting go. For every slapstick gag or cute, squeaky, three-eyed alien zealot, there’s a bunch of beloved characters confronting death by staring straight into its inevitable, uncaring, fiery eyes... often right…

Ciara Bravo’s character in Cherry, Emily, is very good until she isn’t. Though she struggles with being emotionally unavailable, Emily is Cherry’s anchor when he’s in the war, making her way through school and even finding them a house to buy. When she realizes he’s making a scary slide into opioid addiction, though,…

“I’m really just about tired of being a supporting actor,” Landry Clarke tells his buddy from the barber’s chair. “I’m about ready to be a leading man, Matt.” As seen near the end of Friday Night Lights’ first season back in 2007, the scene is played for comedy—paralyzingly introverted freshman quarterback Matt…

Having successfully distracted themselves from the grim futility of life for a few precious moments by buying up every Dr. Seuss book in close reach—and thus sticking it to those bastards in the estate of Dr. Seuss, who decided not to continue publishing some of the beloved author’s books that trafficked in racist…

Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical film Roma was one of the most talked-about films of 2018, with its star Yalitza Aparicio going from teacher to Oscar nominee. She even made history as the first Indigenous Mexican woman to be nominated for Best Actress. But instead of major Hollywood directors fighting to get her…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Coming 2 America now available to rent from home, we’re offering our own belated sequel to a past Watch This theme and singing the praises of more good comedy…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Truffle Hunters on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s an interview on the matter with scientific experts.

In a 2018 post on Instagram, Jennifer Garner appears in a red jumpsuit, dangling from a T-bar as it slowly lifts her above a large aluminum slide in some upscale indoor playplace. “Oh, I wish I hadn’t done this,” she mutters to her onlooking family. “I hate this so much. Why’d I do this?” Though she may have some…

Close your eyes and picture yourself in a movie theater (while also reading this article). There’s a trailer playing on the screen, one of those old-fashioned ones where it’s just exciting words and phrases flying at the screen. Each word is more exciting than the last, and by the end of the imaginary trailer you’re…

The namesake of Ephraim Asili’s debut feature, The Inheritance, is a West Philadelphia row house, bequeathed to a young Black man, that serves as a home base for an autonomous collective of artists and activists. Asili, who not only wrote, directed, edited, and shot the film but also served as its production designer,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Coming 2 America now available to rent from home, we’re offering our own belated sequel to a past Watch This theme and singing the praises of more good comedy…

We don’t know if you were aware, but people are pretty keen on that little WandaVision show that just wrapped up on Disney+. They’re also super into its music, and with very good reason—but that’s neither here nor there right now, because we’ve just been made privy to a very unsettling alternate timeline for Earth-1999…

It doesn’t take making a movie about addiction to realize that the way we treat substance abusers is not only wrong but entirely unsympathetic. In Tom Holland’s case, though, it didn’t hurt. As he tells The A.V. Club, making Apple TV’s new movie Cherry with The Russo Brothers helped him to see and recognize what it…

Daveed Diggs makes it look easy. While most actors are thrilled to be involved with just one project getting awards attention, the 39-year-old is in three projects currently up for trophies. In addition to Soul’s recent Golden Globe win, Diggs is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work in Hamilton. On…

We’re only 10 days out from HBO Max streaming Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but the epic saga of the film’s journey from theatrical release that nobody liked to streaming exclusive that everyone has already decided how they feel about has just taken a last-minute turn that is just hilariously dumb. As reported by Variety

Get ready to be scandalized all over again, so-called fancy society: According to Deadline, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is getting a new adaptation from The Mustang’s Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and Life Of Pi screenwriter David Magee, with Emma Corrin (fresh off of starring in The Crown, which also…