If you scroll social media for a bit, you’re bound to run across the van-life cult. Hordes of beautiful people advertise their perfect lives on the road across the Internet. What they often don’t show are the less-glamorous parts of van life: showering at 24-hour
With I Love Boosters, Boots Riley places himself in the conversation of the most imaginative filmmakers operating today. Riley made his directorial debut in 2018, with the bizarrely surreal satire Sorry to Bother You and I Love Boosters feels like a continuation of many of the same themes and ideas,
Guy Ritchie built his reputation on smart action-comedy hits like Snatch and Sherlock Holmes. Ritchie’s new film, In the Grey, is exactly what you’d come to expect from the English director. An overwhelmingly attractive cast meticulously plans a mission in order to trump a powerful villain. While
Few crime dramas can be found with as much rhythm and style as “Tuner.” It would be difficult to find an apt comparison for what this film offers, but it feels like a unique amalgamation of “The Sound of Metal,” Baby Driver, and “Whiplash.” The film follows a piano tuner
Apex is a film about adrenaline junkies. Many have seen videos of these fearless people online: tightrope walkers, skydivers, and race car drivers might all come to mind. But mountain climbers might be the craziest of them all. Arguably the world’s greatest free solo climber, Alex Honnold, famously had
If you’ve stumbled into any Barnes & Noble or browsed Goodreads in the past few years, you’ve likely seen a book with an octopus on the cover called “Remarkably Bright Creatures.” Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel began as a modest publishing success before spreading by word-of-
A murder mystery can take many forms—some more or less familiar than others. Agatha Christie helped popularize the literary genre, writing 66 detective novels with famous hits like Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None. The murder mystery genre became familiar enough that it required
In Hokum, Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy builds a terrifyingly suspenseful atmosphere in a hotel in rural Ireland. McCarthy is no stranger to horror, writing and directing other horror films such as Caveat (2020) and Oddity (2024). In this new film, Adam Scott stars as Ohm Bauman, an author haunted by
RZA is best known as the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, but he also has a history of working in film. The New York rapper has composed scores, produced movies and TV shows, and even co-wrote and directed his first movie, “The Man with Iron Fists” in 2012.
$POSITIONS is an indie thriller-comedy that follows the chaotic ups and downs of a blue-collar Midwesterner gambling his life savings on a cryptocurrency. On its surface, it may appear to share similarities with Uncut Gems, as both films are chaotic studies of gambling addiction. However, this film carves
Over Your Dead Body, the American adaptation of the 2021 Norwegian action comedy thriller, The Trip, features a cast and crew rooted in sketch-comedy and sitcom backgrounds. The film is directed by The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, and written by internet sketch duo Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney
In 1978, David Attenborough was filming the series Life on Earth in Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains. What was supposed to be a standard scene about the evolution of opposable thumbs became one of the most memorable nature documentary moments. As Attenborough spoke his lines in the rainforest, a 3-year-