Everyone’s favorite “nepo baby,” Jack Quaid, plays “Novocaine” in this action-packed thriller that doubles as a modern romantic comedy. Quaid plays Nathan Caine, an average guy with an interesting genetic disorder: he cannot feel any pain. His condition proves itself useful for Nate when he has to fight armed thieves to save the girl he loves.
On Feb. 20, New York City’s Lincoln Center for Performing Arts hosted a screening of Frederick Wiseman’s 1968 documentary, “High School.” The film, which is credited as one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries, follows the lives of students and faculty at a Pennsylvania high school. Filmed and released in the 60s, the film highlights the dictator-like role the school’s faculty held over the students, and explores the abysmal results of that treatment.
It has been almost a month since the film “Heart Eyes” released, and it is still as divisive as ever. When reflecting on the long-awaited Valentine’s Day slasher film, the intentionally campy moments displaying what love is in the corniest way possible remains positive. Oftentimes, the movie is terrible and on the nose, but this can be recognized as a deliberate choice by the director and writers.
Jonathan Eusebio’s “Love Hurts” is a disappointing next step in Ke Huy Quan’s action career. His Oscar-winning performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” – which also won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2022 – showed incredible range for the actor. He gave a heartbreaking, funny, loveable and action-packed performance as multiple versions of his character across the multiverse. His Oscar win was well deserved, to say the least, and anyone who has seen the film would surely agree. Ariana DeBose, Quan’s “Love Hurts” co-star, is also fresh off the Oscar scene, having won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for “West Side Story” in 2022.
“Carry-On,” a new Christmas thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, shows a Transportation Security Administration agent get blackmailed on Christmas Eve. Egerton plays Ethan, the TSA who...
Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the biopic, “A Complete Unknown.” The film is based on the book “Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald and gets its title from a lyric in Dylan’s song “Like a Rolling Stone.”
“Gladiator II” takes place 16 years after the first film. It follows Lucius, the son of Lucilla, played by Connie Nielsen, and Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. Lucius is played by Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal. Estranged from his family for over a decade, Lucius coincidentally ends up reconnecting with his mother after his home is attacked by the Roman Army. He is taken by the army to become a slave-turned-gladiator like his father, and quickly rises to greatness, also following in his father’s footsteps. The film is packed with well-done action sequences, effective gore and a compelling story as Lucius fights to restore the Roman Republic – a dream his father wished to carry out.
Aidan Judge, Arts & Entertainment Editor
• December 10, 2024
Musical theatre adaptations have always been rocky in the entertainment industry. Whether it’s failed follow-ups to cult classics such as “Grease 2,” or a film trying to hide its musical identity such as “Mean Girls,” movie-musical adaptations can be rather touch-and-go with larger audiences.
There are very few genres of film (specifically horror film) that are more divisive than the so-called “found footage” category. Ever since the Italian exploitation classic “Cannibal Holocaust” sparked a frenzy in both the media and the court of law in 1980, viewers have showered this unique subset of cinema with both healthy praises and much-needed criticism. Though there is more than a handful of lazily conceived and poorly-crafted misfires, the staggering amount of genuine cleverness, commitment to authentic tension-building and sometimes sheer innovation that found-footage films can offer, makes all the ridicule and malice directed towards them unfair and even puzzling.
When my 9-year-old self saw Emmett (Chris Pratt) become “The Special” and join the ranks of the greatest master builders to defeat Lord Business’s (Will Ferrell) regime, I thought it was one of the greatest movies of all time. Ten years later, I hold a similar opinion. Having recently rewatched “The Lego Movie” for old time’s sake, I realized that the film should not be taken at face value.
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