'Dr. Brain': The Taming of Kim Jae-woon
The director of 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' and 'I Saw the Devil' moves his act to television, with some of the edges sanded down.
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In Review: 'Eternals,' 'Spencer,' 'Finch,' and 'The Beta Test'
In this week's reviews, the most beautiful MCU is also the worst, Pablo Larraín gives Princess Diana the 'Jackie' treatment, and robots and agents run on faulty programming.
Marvel’s 'Eternals' Wouldn’t Exist Without A Half-Forgotten, Nonsense-Filled Bestseller From an Alien-Obsessed Swiss Hotel Manager ✦
1968's 'Chariots of the Gods?' won over millions of readers, influenced comics great Jack Kirby and, eventually, inspired a film in which Angelina Jolie and others play ancient, godlike aliens.
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'The Nasty Girl': When history is written by the losers
Buried on Paramount +, this long-unavailable Miramax acquisition from 1990 speaks uncannily to the simmering evils of the present day.
In Review: 'Last Night in Soho,' 'Antlers,' 'The Souvenir Part II'
In this week's reviews, Edgar Wright enters an evocative, giallo-inspired portal to '60s London, horror gets elevated, and Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical journey.
A Conversation with John Hodgman about 'Dune,' Pt. 2
In which the author and humorist gets the 'Dune' of his dreams, but wonders if the era that made it "filmable" is also an era in which it's unnecessary.