How can someone take a band as exciting, wild, and innovative as the Sex Pistols and make such a conventional, paint-by-numbers miniseries? With 'Pistol', Danny Boyle found a way.
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie
The hotly anticipated sequel to 'Top Gun', the 1986 movie that made Tom Cruise a star, is raking in cash, great reviews, and even Oscar buzz even though it’s the …
Hollywood Never Fully Appreciated Ray Liotta’s Immense Talent
Ray Liotta, who died last week at the age of 67, should have been a major star – but after his greatest role in Martin Scorsese’s 'Goodfellas', we never really …
‘Men’ Is Terrifying – Until It Succumbs to Its Big Ideas
Alex Garland’s latest is a horror movie about how awful it is to be a woman. But all the terror drains out of the film by the end, and only …
The ‘Firestarter’ Remake Fails to Ignite
Stephen King’s original novel was a product of post-Watergate rage toward the CIA. But horror production company Blumhouse’s second adaptation can’t keep the flame alive.
‘The Staircase’ Is the Natural Next Step in Our True-Crime Watching Spree
True crime has come a long way. The new HBO Max series, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette, has the posh cast and opulent production values that showcase the genre's …
‘The Northman’ Is an Honorable Failure
I wanted to love Robert Eggers’s follow-up to 'The Witch' and 'The Lighthouse', but maybe a big-budget Viking saga just isn’t the right fit for a wonderful weirdo like him?