Robin Wrights and Golden Globe Wrongs: Links You Need to See
Unless you’ve spent the day blissfully ignorant of the dissonant post-awards-show chorus of snark, you know that yesterday, the Golden Globes happened. Amidst everyone commenting on which celebrities...
View ArticleFrank Underwood Finally Gets What He Wants in ‘House of Cards’ Season 3 — and...
House of Cards‘ Frank Underwood gets his fair share of Macbeth comparisons, but the show is something of a tragic figure in its own right. It simply doesn’t know what it wants to be: is it a slick,...
View ArticleIn Defense of ‘House of Cards’ Season 3’s Divisive Finale
After I watched the first four episodes of House of Cards‘ third season, I noted that the Frank Underwood who had wormed his way into the Oval Office was a Frank Underwood who had lost his fundamental...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Beyond the Lights,’ ‘The...
We’ve seen some grim weeks for new releases in the half-year or so that this column has run, but never one quite like this — I mean, seriously, try to find a movie you’ve even heard of in this sad...
View ArticleIn Season 4, ‘House of Cards’ Leans Into Being the Soap Opera It Always Has Been
As Frank Underwood has told us over and over again, House of Cards is a show about power. And power abhors a vacuum. Last season, House of Cards had to learn this the hard way. After two seasons of...
View ArticleRobin Wright, Actor You’d Most Want to See in a ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel, Joins...
A Blade Runner sequel might have at one point sounded like a terrible idea — but as people you’d really want to see in or behind a Blade Runner sequel keep adding up, it’s getting mighty hard to be a...
View ArticleUh Oh: Jared Leto Boards the ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner sequel has a new addition to its cast, and the news is more fraught than it may have been a few months months ago, before said addition became the poster child for why...
View Article‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Gets a Release Date and a Seemingly Straightforward Title
Sicario/Arrival director Denis Villeneuve’s much anticipated (and for some, skeptically anticipated) sequel to Blade Runner has just, after much talk, gotten a release date and title. It’ll be coming...
View ArticleThe Trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Is Here, and...
If the idea of a Blade Runner sequel by not-Ridley Scott rightfully deserved skepticism, the announcement that it’d be directed by Arrival‘s Denis Villeneuve probably at least tempered the skepticism...
View ArticleSee New Footage of a Cruel and Beautifully Lit Future in ‘Blade Runner...
The Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049 just got a second trailer, so you can now see many of the same exquisitely stylized scenes…from slightly different angles, and a slightly more robust...
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