Jane Schoenbrun was born to make cult classics. After generating buzz with their 2021 Sundance breakout We’re All Going to the World’s Fair– an eerie microbudget gem inspired by shadowy Internet enclaves– the writer/director follows it up this week with I Saw The TV Glow, another mystifying, atmospheric coming-of-age story made to resonate with a very specific audience. “The first thing that I said to the crew was, ‘I want to make a movie that plays at the IFC Center at midnight for the next 20...
I discovered Doug Liman's 1999 film Go the same way a lot of people did. I rented it from Blockbuster. I was in middle school; my mom, God bless her, let me rent anything I wanted, more or less. Go looked weird and fun; I knew Katie Holmes from Dawson's Creek, which my brother and I watched obsessively, and I had devoured Pulp Fiction, to which Go was frequently (and unfairly) compared. So I was fully unprepared, in the best way, for Go, which was much more of a romp than Pulp Fiction but just...
INTERVIEW BY CHRIS FOY: The South African posed for pictures with a group of fans who had turned up to Ashton Gate wearing fake versions of his trademark haircut
I catch Justin Kuritzkes, the screenwriter behind the new Luca Guadagnino film Challengers, in the middle of a busy press day, doing interviews from an elegantly-appointed hotel room that would be right out of a Guadagnino production (I Am Love, obviously) except for the room’s conked-out TV, which keeps inexplicably coming to life and playing The View. “They just want to be heard,” Kuritzkes cracks. “They want to give their views on everything.” Kuritzkes lives in New York with his wife, Past...
In a televised social experiment, MAGA supporters disturbingly defended fake recordings of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women and teens, exposing their cult-like willingness to excuse his depravity. In one of the fake recordings, Trump boasts about wanting cameras installed in teen girls' dressing rooms: Look, I need cameras in the dressing room, you know, cameras on the wall, cameras on the floor, aimed up at their whatevers. — Read the rest
Known more for his hits, Matt Rempe scored the first goal for the Rangers in their playoff opener against the Capitals.
Sometimes you just want a movie where people beat each other up in ever more entertaining ways.
In the late 1950s, Charles “Chuck” Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who’d gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Dederich offered free treatment to self-described “dope fiends” desperate to kick their deadly habit and go cold turkey. Over the next decade and a half, the group, named Synanon, expanded across the country and evolved into a self-help movement with thousands of members, including many who were not addicts...
Cary Elwes credits the fantasy adventure comedy film The Princess Bride (1987), for which he played Westley, as being the big breakthrough role of his career.
Newcastle United cult hero Nolberto Solano has landed a new role as manager of non-league Blyth Spartans. Blyth, a town 13 miles away from the city of Newcastle, will be playing in the Northern Pre
For those of you just joining us, today we're teaching poodles how to fly.
New Mononoke the Movie trailer and key visual feature the same art style that made this now-cult classic so loved by so many.