Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Dream Scenario,” the new A24 film from the writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, Nicolas Cage plays Paul Matthews, an underappreciated and ineffectual college professor who finds fame because of an odd metaphysical…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Long before Bradley Cooper made his big screen début in “Wet Hot American Summer,” and before he played Phil Wenneck, the wise-ass Jägermeister-swilling schoolteacher in “The Hangover,” he wanted to direct.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.”Photograph courtesy Apple TV+ Americans are so used to seeing history played by Americans that the oddity of it hardly registers anymore. Charlton Heston was the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the most graceful experiences I’ve had at the movies this year is the last part of “Monster,” the drama directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda that’s currently in theatres, but it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In April, 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade made it legal nationwide, New York passed the most expansive abortion law in the U.S. Three other states passed similar bills in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The documentary—a mix of interviews, archival footage, and home videos—plays a bit like a eulogy, albeit a funny one. Bob Newhart and Don Rickles occupied separate spheres in the comedy world…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was another tumultuous year for the podcast industry, with layoffs and cancellations at Spotify, Pushkin, WNYC, and NPR, which cut four of its series and ten per cent of its…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the city, poetry is everywhere. It’s interwoven with the dense urban fabric of the everyday, present in the mundanities of human coexistence and in the extremes of creative self-exertion. For…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Louise Bonnet’s large-scale paintings depict spectacular, Surrealist-tinged visions in which distended, grotesque bodies take center stage. Figures with engorged limbs, teeny heads, conical breasts, and curled appendages hover on the spectrum…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I call ahead. A recording announces that the reservation book is closed but doesn’t mention walk-ins. After putting on some makeup, a silk shirt, and heels, I begin my nearly two-hour…