There are movies you watch, and then there are movies that get welded into your nervous system. Full Metal Jacket has always been the latter for me — a film that hit Gen X right in that sweet spot between cynicism and reluctant awe. We grew up on the tail end of the Vietnam hangover ...

Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley plays like someone finally sat you down and said, “Okay, here’s the real story — not the myth, not the Tumblr version, the human one.” And honestly, it works. You can stream it on HBO / Max, which feels about right for a documentary   ...

There’s a particular electricity to the early ’90s that you can’t fake — that mix of restlessness, sincerity, and cigarette‑smudged ambition that lived in every club, every rehearsal space, every half‑finished song. Amy Scott’s documentary Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me  ...

John Wick dropped in 2014, back when action movies were still trying to convince us that shaky‑cam fistfights counted as choreography. Then Keanu Reeves strolls in—mid‑career, mid‑life, mid‑everything—and suddenly the whole genre remembers it used to have standards. The premise is simple  ...

Okay, so The Amazing Bulk is honestly one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen in my entire life, and I’ve watched the original Super Mario Bros movie like 5 times. This movie was released in 2012 and is supposed to be similar to The Incredible Hulk, but if the Hulk   ...

If Yorgos Lanthimos ever decided to host a TED Talk, it would probably start with a dead cow, end with bees, and leave the audience both horrified and applauding. His latest film, Bugonia, takes that exact energy — unhinged, hilarious, and oddly profound — and channels ...

Children, in the old days — before AirTags, before read receipts, before your phone could tell you someone left your house at 3:17 a.m. — we feared the unknown. The unseen. The bump in the night. But David Robert Mitchell said: No, no, my child. You will fear the thing you can see. The thing  ...

Gore Verbinski’s The Ring is remembered for its iconic shocks — the well, the tape, the girl in the static — but its most unsettling moment arrives in near silence. After Rachel Keller watches the cursed videotape, she steps onto her apartment balcony and looks out over the city. Window  ...