In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. I too felt Dana’s “haze of generalized goodwill” that weekend, especially because, as she notes, I was completely wowed by Oppenheimer, which is an easy movie with which to get obsessed. At the moment, this …
Few film pitches sound as much like a collection of names pulled at random from a large hat as the latest offering from Joe Wright : this adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac stars Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage in the titular role and takes the form of an achingly sincere, swashbuckling musical, with songs composed …
Ah, what a joy to be back in packed theaters again, seated in the dark with strangers and collectively transfixed by the power of the moving image. Halfway through Saturday’s North American premiere of “Spencer,” the mesmerizing new drama starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, I was tempted to ask the fool in front of me to pull his mask …
How teen movies became hooked on classic literature Alamy Ten years ago, the release of Easy A marked the end of a Hollywood trend – for adapting old books and plays into high school movies. High school is a time of life when we are feeling alive with possibilities, excitement, terror, anxiety, romance, drama, dreams, goals – all the stuff …
