Tag: Movies
‘Nope’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from…
How Five Sci-Fi Movies From 1982 Shaped Our Present
“Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years…
Gen Z Stars React to Classic Sci-Fi Movies of the ’80s
If you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented with imaginative questions that seemed cosmic…
It Came From the ’80s
If you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented with imaginative questions that seemed cosmic…
Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present
“Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years…
After Pixar Ouster, John Lasseter Returns With Apple and ‘Luck’
LOS ANGELES — The most Pixar movie of the summer is not from Pixar. It’s from Apple TV+…
B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America
A funny story that B.J. Novak likes to tell from the making of his new movie is about…
‘Vengeance’ Review: A Dish Best Served With Frito Pie
Ben Manalowitz, who writes for The New Yorker (he’s played by B.J. Novak, who has been published in…
The Japanese Author Behind ‘Bullet Train’ Is OK That the Film Isn’t So Japanese
SENDAI, Japan — Kotaro Isaka, one of Japan’s most popular crime thriller writers, is a self-described homebody. He…
Why Brandon Perea’s ‘Nope’ Audition Made Jordan Peele Cry
And then you heard about “Nope”?I got an email for an untitled Jordan Peele project, my first big…
Paul Sorvino: A Voluble Man Who Excelled as a Brick of a Mobster
When Paul Sorvino was offered the role of Paulie Cicero, the Queens-based mob underboss in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”…
Why Are There so Many Books and Shows About Cannibalism?
An image came to Chelsea G. Summers: a boyfriend, accidentally on purpose hit by a car, some quick…