David Fincher’s Mank explores the making of a landmark Hollywood film
Gary Oldman stars as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter behind Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane.
What’s new on Netflix, Crave, Prime, Disney Plus, CBC, Apple TV, Criterion
The Mariah Carey Christmas special, a new Selena series, fresh Fincher, Soderbergh and Deepa Mehta movies & more!
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A new Taylor Swift documentary, a whole heap of Christmas movies, horror movies and more!
Johnny Flynn on how playing David Bowie without the music was a bonus
The British actor and musician portrays a pre-Ziggy Stardust Bowie in Stardust.
Uncle Frank is an old-school homophobia melodrama elevated by its lead
Paul Bettany’s restrained portrayal sells this 1970s-set morality play by Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under).
REVIEW: Blue Hearts, Bob Mould
The onetime frontman for Hüsker Dü is particularly fired up and his brand of overdriven pop hooks hasn’t aged a day.
Fatman, the Mel Gibson Santa movie, takes itself pretty seriously
The outlandish premise of Santa Claus having a hit put out on him by a naughty child is treated with grizzled gravity in Fatman.
Hillbilly Elegy is a supercut of award-bait misery porn
Stripped of the novel’s political talking points, Ron Howard’s adaptation is merely a showcase for histrionics by two actresses who haven’t won their Oscars yet.
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A sad rom-com with Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne, Ron Howard awards-bait (or not?), a new Melissa McCarthy comedy & more!
REVIEW: American Head, the Flaming Lips
“American Head hearkens back to their early 2000s sound: soaring-yet-accessible neo-psych with widescreen cinematic ambitions.”