March 13, 2025

A Slithery, Singing John Malkovich Is All Opus Has Going for It

  Photo: A24 via YouTube This review was originally published on January 28, 2025, out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to Opus’s theatrical release. Wealthy eccentrics and their pseudo-cults appear to have replaced haunted houses in our cultural imagination. Any number of genre films now turn on unsuspecting characters …

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Matthew McConaughey’s First Movie in 6 Years Is Bananas in the Best Way

  Photo: The Searchers With the exception of a Zach Bryan music video, Matthew McConaughey has been off the screen for six years, sticking to voicework while publishing a memoir and threatening to run for office. That’s the sort of absence that used to feel like a statement about an actor’s relationship with the industry …

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The Wheel of Time Season-Premiere Recap: The People of the Dragon

  Photo: There are two kinds of writers, according to Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon demiurge George R.R. Martin. Some, like Martin’s idol and inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, are architects, meticulously planning out their intricate worlds and the hundreds of characters and story lines that exist within them. Others, like Martin himself, are gardeners, planting …

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Cynthia Ozick Is Undiminished

  Photo: Sasha Rudensky “Fame is pursued,” Cynthia Ozick says. “Recognition accrues.” Recognition comes with being read, and for much of her writing life, Ozick, who turns 97 in April, maintained that she wasn’t. Never mind that David Foster Wallace, who selected her work for The Best American Essays 2007, also put her on his …

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Aamir Khan Confirms Relationship With Gauri, Friend Of 25 Years: “I Introduced Her To Shah Rukh, Salman Yesterday”

Aamir Khan is turning a year older on Friday (March 14). On the special occasion, the actor hosted a meet and greet session with the media. The highlight? The actor’s girlfriend Gauri, whom he met 25 years ago.  During the press meet, the actor introduced his girlfriend Gauri to the media. He said, “Gauri and …

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